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Cutaneous xanthogranulomatous inflammation: a potential indicator of internal disease
S Rogers1, D N Slater, J A Anderson
1Department of Pathology, University of Sheffield Medical School, U.K.
The British Journal of Dermatology
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
Cutaneous xanthogranulomatous inflammation is usually regarded as a primary disease process. We describe two patients with xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis and nephro-cutaneous fistulae, one patient with xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis and a chole-cutaneous fistula and one patient with xanthogranulomatous appendicitis and appendiceal-cutaneous fistula. After the first case, awareness that cutaneous xanthogranulomatous inflammation can be secondary to related internal disease played a vital diagnostic role in the subsequent cases.