title: Flexural planar xanthomas: report of four cases.
abstract: Four patients with primary hyperlipoproteinemia, Frederickson's type IIb, were observed to have symmetrical planar xanthomas affecting flexures: finger webs, antecubital and popliteal fossae, axillae, and intergluteal cleft. Other types of xanthomas were also present and serum lipid electrophoresis showed type IIb pattern. We draw attention to the peculiar pattern of symmetrical planar xanthomatosis hitherto described only with type III disease and some forms of normolipemic xanthomatoses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology and Venereology, T.N. Medical College, Bombay, India.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Nigale
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Khopkar
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Trasi
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Wadhwa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001365:Axilla / Q000473:pathology; D002081:Buttocks / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D004550:Elbow / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000473:pathology; D006229:Hand Dermatoses / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006951:Hyperlipoproteinemias / Q000473:pathology; D007717:Knee / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D014973:Xanthomatosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*