Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
ISSN 1025-0255
VICTORIA BARZAGA, Héctor Oscar; RAMOS CABRERA, Asmell LAZO SANCHEZ, Laura. Eruptive xanthomas associated to diabetes mellitus type II and hypertriglyceridemia: a case report. []. , 13, 2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.
The case of a white, 37 years old man is reported, his mother with diabetes mellitus type 1, with personal pathological antecedents of suffering exogenous obesity from approximately five years. He began to present in a disseminated form a papular eruption of yellowish color that was clinically and histological diagnosed like eruptive xantomas associated to diabetes mellitus type 2 appearing for the first time and hypertriglyceridemia. The generalities of the eruptive xantomas are described, their presentation forms, as well as the etiologic and histopathologic characteristic of the disease.
: Eruptive xantomas; diabetes mellitus type 2; hypertriglyceridemia.