title: Plexiform xanthoma: an unusual variant.
abstract: We present a 35-year-old male patient with a recurrent xanthoma within the dermis of the elbow. There was no clinical evidence of hyperlipidaemia. The very unusual feature in this case was the presence of a plexiform growth pattern, not to our knowledge previously described in xanthomata. This necessitated distinction from a true neoplasm, most particularly of neural type.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histopathology, St Thomas's Hospital (UMDS), London, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beham
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Fletcher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000032:analysis; D015214:Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic / Q000032:analysis; D004550:Elbow; D006644:Histiocytes / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009418:S100 Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D014973:Xanthomatosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D000097382:CD68 Molecule
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D015214:Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic; D009418:S100 Proteins; C067980:CD68 antigen, human; D000097382:CD68 Molecule