Isolated xanthoma of the frontal bone.
Xanthomas of soft tissue are common, well described lesions. Much less common are xanthomas of bone. Rarer still are xanthomas of the bones of the skull or facial skeleton. The case of a woman with an incidentally found isolated xanthoma of the frontal bone in the setting of normal blood lipid levels is reported. Surgical treatment of such lesions is both diagnostic, in excluding other lesions such as eosinophilic granuloma, and therapeutic.
Elwood
Eric T
ET
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, Illinois 61603, USA. eelwood@uic.edu
Shahwan
Tom G
TG
Dajani
Noura
N
Murray
John D
JD
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004803:Eosinophilic Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014973:Xanthomatosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery