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Image Number #4801 (Xanthoma tuberosum)

Diagnosis: Xanthoma tuberosum

Description: Yellowish-orange plaques.

Morphology: Plaque

Site: Elbow

Sex: F

Age: 18

Type: Clinical

Submitted By: Nameer Al-Sudany

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History:

A teenager female with positive family history of familial hyperlipidemia presented with asymptomatic yellowish orange well demarcated plaques on both elbow extensors. O/E, bilateral corneal arcus were seen. Her lipid profile showed markedly elevated fasting plasma cholestrol. 

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