- 著者
- Tetsu Tanaka Kazuyuki Yahagi Osamu Wada Kai Ninomiya Yu Horiuchi Masahiko Asami Hitomi Yuzawa Kota Komiyama Jun Tanaka Jiro Aoki Akitake Suzuki Kazuho Ishizaki Kengo Tanabe
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.7326-21, (Released:2021-06-12)
- 参考文献数
- 21
Achilles tendon xanthoma (ATX) is one of the typical features of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The morphological evaluation of ATX by X-ray radiography is widely recognized; however, the utility of other imaging modalities remains unclear. We herein report two cases of FH in which Doppler ultrasound imaging demonstrated a microvascular flow in ATX that only rarely could be observed in normal Achilles tendons. Neoangiogenesis accompanies chronic inflammation and it may play an important role in the deposition of cholesterol crystals leading to ATX. In addition to the morphological evaluation of ATX, the assessment of neoangiogenesis may therefore be essential for the evaluation of ATX.