Extracellular Urbach cholesterosis

Urbach-Moshkovich cholesterol atherosclerosis is a type of hypercholesterolemic skin lipoidosis. It manifests itself predominantly as swelling of the face, variously thickened hyaline changes in the skin (cystic or wen), less often - skin appendages (head, genital area, ears, etc.), as well as the surface of the joints, mucous membranes of the digestive and respiratory tracts, in the pancreas gland. Accompanied by an increase in cholesterol in the blood and promotes atheroma. At an early stage, the general condition of patients is satisfactory. The most typical complaints are diffuse facial swelling with large telangiectasia. Skin damage is limited. There is a brownish-bluish edema of combined gyrovacuolar dermochaliosis, reminiscent of manifestations of Daye's keratoderma (Remin syndrome) and psoriatic pemphigus. Only the severity of the process varies significantly. There are multiple small pockmarked bulges or deep funnel-shaped nodes covered with flaccid