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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
On-line version ISSN 1025-0255
Abstract
VICTORIA BARZAGA, Héctor Oscar; RAMOS CABRERA, Asmell and LAZO SANCHEZ, Laura. Eruptive xanthomas associated to diabetes mellitus type II and hypertriglyceridemia: a case report. AMC [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.2. 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.
Keywords : Eruptive xantomas; diabetes mellitus type 2; hypertriglyceridemia.