Xanthoma disseminatum

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| name = Xanthoma disseminatum

| synonyms = Disseminated xanthosiderohistiocytosis{{cite book |author=Rapini, Ronald P. |author2=Bolognia, Jean L. |author3=Jorizzo, Joseph L. |title=Dermatology: 2-Volume Set |publisher=Mosby |location=St. Louis |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-4160-2999-1 }} and Montgomery syndrome

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Xanthoma disseminatum is a rare cutaneous condition that preferentially affects males in childhood, characterized by the insidious onset of small, yellow-red to brown papules and nodules that are discrete and disseminated.{{cite book |author=James, William D. |author2=Berger, Timothy G.|title=Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology |publisher=Saunders Elsevier |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7216-2921-6 |display-authors=etal}}{{rp|717}}

It is a histiocytosis syndrome.{{cite journal |vauthors=Alexander AS, Turner R, Uniate L, Pearcy RG |title=Xanthoma disseminatum: a case report and literature review |journal=Br J Radiol |volume=78 |issue=926 |pages=153–7 |date=February 2005 |pmid=15681329 |doi= 10.1259/bjr/27500851}}