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lipoid proteinosis

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lipoid proteinosis
 An AR condition of childhood onset characterized by coalescent aggregates of lipid and mucopolysaccharides, resulting in numerous yellowish plaques, papules, nodules, and induration of skin–pachydermia, eyelids, oropharynx, and larynx with hoarseness, hyperkeratosis of the knees and elbows, hyalinization of blood vessels; calcification of hippocampal gyri, while rare, is pathognomonic and causes the associated convulsions
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Abstract Lipoid proteinosis (Urbach-Wiethe disease) is a rare autosomal-recessive anomaly that primarily affects the skin and the mucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract in children.
Lipoid proteinosis (Urbach-Wiethe disease): a case report from India by Batra, Kadambari; Safaya, Anil; Aggarwal, Kiran / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
9) Two other diseases of interest as differential diagnoses of vocal fold deposits are amyloidosis and lipoid proteinosis (Urbach-Wiethe's disease): * Amyloidosis is an uncommon disease characterized by extracellular fibrillar proteins that stain with Congo red.
Vocal fold deposits in macrophagic myofasciitis by O'Sullivan, Peter / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
 
 
 
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