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- not comparablemedicinePertaining to deposits that include a combination of lipids and melanin.
Dermatopathia lymphadenitis is a chronic lipomelanotic hyperplasia of reticulum cells of the pulp of the lymph-nodes.
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The term "lipomelanotic reticulosis" was created by Pautrier and Woringer' in 1937, to describe lipomelanotic deposits in enlarged lymph nodes; the condition was associated with certain generalized dermatoses.
1954, Oliver Samuel Ormsby, Hamilton Montgomery, Diseases of the skin, page 525Numerous lysosomes were seen in the cytoplasm of alveolar macrophages, usually linked with a lipomelanotic pigment (fig. 87) appearing brown under the light microscope.
1990, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica. Monographia, page 111
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