title: Verruciform xanthoma. First case reported in a black person.
abstract: The twenty-sixth case of verruciform xanthoma is reported. The clinical and light microscopic findings in this case are similar to those previously described of a shaggy, parakeratin-covered, pebbly, or verrucous surface and elongated rete pegs which extend a uniform depth into the underlying conncetive tissue. Large "foam cells" or xanthoma cells filled only the connective tissue papillae between the epithelial pegs. The 1.5 by 4 cm. lesion in our patient is the largest verruciform xanthoma reported to date and is the first to be reported in a black person.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005882:Gingival Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D014973:Xanthomatosis / Q000473:pathology*