Xantomas eruptivos asociados a diabetes mellitus tipo II e hipertrigliceridemia: reporte de un caso

the case of a white, 37 years old man is reported, his mother with diabetes mellitus type 1, with personal pathological antecedents of suffering exogenous obesity from approximately five years. he began to present in a disseminated form a papular eruption of yellowish color that was clinically and histological diagnosed like eruptive xantomas associated to diabetes mellitus type 2 appearing for the first time and hypertriglyceridemia. the generalities of the eruptive xantomas are described, their presentation forms, as well as the etiologic and histopathologic characteristic of the disease.