Farber disease

A subcutaneous tissue disease characterized by a spectrum of clinical signs ranging from the classical triad of painful and progressively deformed joints, subcutaneous nodules, and progressive hoarseness (due to laryngeal involvement) that presents in infancy, to varying phenotypes with respiratory and neurologic involvement.

Microcytic anemia

A kind of anemia in which the volume of the red blood cells is reduced.


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PMID (PMCID)
23385296
MALE Child
Farber lipogranulomatosis with predominant joint involvement mimicking juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Kostik MM, Chikova IA, Avramenko VV, Vasyakina LI, Le Trionnaire E, Chasnyk VG, Levade T.
J Inherit Metab Dis. 2013;36(6):1079-80.
The case of a 10-year-old boy with Farber lipogranulomatosis with predominant joint involvement, subacute, laryngeal and tongue granulomas, microcytic anemia, elevated ESR and CRP, is presented.