"Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Benign disorder of infants and children caused by proliferation of HISTIOCYTES, macrophages found in tissues. These histiocytes, usually lipid-laden non-Langerhans cells, form multiple yellow-red nodules most often in the skin, the eye, and sometimes in the viscera. Patients appear to have normal lipid metabolism and are classified as a normolipemic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
| Descriptor ID |
D014972
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C15.604.250.410.900 C17.800.973
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| Concept/Terms |
Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile- Xanthogranuloma, Juvenile
- Juvenile Xanthogranuloma
- Juvenile Xanthogranulomas
- Xanthogranulomas, Juvenile
- Xanthoma, Juvenile
- Juvenile Xanthoma
- Juvenile Xanthomas
- Xanthomas, Juvenile
- Nevoxanthoendothelioma
- Nevoxanthoendotheliomas
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