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Quiz; November 2013

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What is your diagnosis for this 23-year-old woman?

She referred with these asymptomatic papulonodules erupted since about one month ago on her extremities.
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Answer: Eruptive Xanthoma
 

Xanthomas are skin lesions caused by the accumulation of fat in macrophage immune cells in the skin and more rarely in the layer of fat under the skin.

In Eruptive xanthoma, the lesions typically erupt as crops of red-yellow papules mostly over the extremities.

This patients had sky high levels of lipids.