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II. XANTHOMATOSIS (SCHÜLLER-CHRISTIAN'S TYPE)

DORMAN E. LICHTY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1934;53(3):379-390.

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The clinical syndrome known variously as Schüller-Christian's disease, Christian's syndrome, xanthomatosis of the skeletal type and dysostosis hypophysaria and also described as "defects in membranous bones, exophthalmos and diabetes insipidus" was first described by Hand¹ in 1893. Hand presented the case of a 3 year old boy with exophthalmos and polyuria in whom autopsy revealed a soft, movable yellow spot about the size of a five cent piece, involving the entire thickness of the skull in the right parietal region. In 1916, Schüller² reported two cases, one in a boy of 16 with dystrophia adiposogenitalis, exophthalmos and marked cranial defects and the other in a girl of 4 years with polyuria, exophthalmos and defects of the skull. Schüller felt that both cases were examples of skeletal defects secondary to disease of the hypophysis. Christian,³ in 1919, reported a case of defects in the membranous bones, exophthalmos and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ANN ARBOR, MICH.

From the Department of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan.

Footnotes
Read before the Columbus Academy of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1932.

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