LIPID STUDIES IN XANTHOMA

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Last year, under the title "Lipid Studies in Xanthoma," we presented before the American Dermatological Association the results of our investigations concerning the chemical nature of xanthomas, the relation of circulating blood fat to the development of these tumors and, more particularly, the alleged relation of a circulating cholesterolemia as the cause of the tumor formation. We recorded, furthermore, the results of certain dietary regimens on the appearance and disappearance of the tumors. Our results were so fundamentally different from those previously reported concerning the nature of xanthomas that it was suggested that additional work on more cases would seem desirable to substantiate further our conclusions. During the past year, we have been able to make additional observations on one of our previously reported cases, and we further had the opportunity of studying over a considerable period of time a most unusual example of familial xanthoma occurring in two sisters.

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