Xanthoma diabeticorum / by H. Radcliffe Crocker.

  • Crocker, H. Radcliffe (Henry Radcliffe), 1845-1909.
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: Xanthoma diabeticorum / by H. Radcliffe Crocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    lieprinted from the British Journal of Dermatology, No. 46, Vol. A] / There being only a dozen cases of xanthoma diabeticorum on record, an additional case is still of interest. As Mr. Malcolm Morris is also relating another case in the present number of this Journal, and has gone fully into the history of the affection with which his name is honourably associated, it would be superfluous on my part to do more than relate the case, to describe the histological details according to my investigations, and to make such remarks as appear to me to arise from my observations. Clinical History.—The patient, *et. 30, was sent to me for diagnosis by Dr. Duncan Greig on February 25th, 1891. The eruption dated from the previous Christmas. It began on the buttocks, next appeared on the front of the arm, and then on the elbows and knees, and the lesions had since gradually increased in number. On the buttocks, where the eruption was most developed, the papules varied from a millet-seed to a pea in size, and had a slightly reddish tinge, unless the skin was stretched, when a yellow colour came out. There were no telangiectases on the papules, and there was not a distinctly red base with a yellow apex, such as is often seen in these cases. On the elbows, the whole papule was more distinctly yellow than on the buttocks, but was of a much paler shade than that usual in ordinary xanthoma. The patient was a well-nourished, but not obese, healthy- looking man. Recognising, however, that the eruption was that of xanthoma diabeticorum, I closely questioned him, and he then admitted that for the last nine months he had noticed a difference in his health ; that there was some lassitude, that he was more easily XANTHOMA DIABETICORUM. By H. RADCLTFFE CROCKER.