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INFECTIONS AND INFESTATIONS
Candida albicans – yellow nails Ghatan p.79, 2002,
Second Edition
Hepatitis B – urticaria with jaundice (yellow hives) 
Millipedes – yellow–brown stain on contact
Onychomycosis – yellow nails 
Ghatan p.79, 2002,
Second Edition
INFILTRATIVE DISEASES
Colloid milium
Mastocytosis, including urticaria pigmentosum; diffuse
cutaneous mastocytosis (xanthelasmoidea)
(pseudoxanthomatous mastocytosis) 
BJD 65:296–297, 1963
METABOLIC DISEASES
Carotenemia – food faddists, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, chronic
renal disease, hypothyroidism 
Rook p.1810,2656, 1998,
Sixth Edition
Diabetes mellitus – carotenemia 
Cutis 71:441–442,448, 2003
Gaucher’s disease type I – yellow–brown pigmentation
Hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice) 
JAAD 43:1–16, 2000; yellow nails
Ghatan p.79, 2002, Second Edition
Hyperlipidemia
Hypopituitarism – yellow tinge to skin with pallor 
Rook
p.2704–2705, 1998, Sixth Edition; Sheehan’s syndrome –
yellow, dry skin 
Rook p.2914, 1998, Sixth Edition
Hypothyroidism; myxedema – ivory yellow skin color 
JAAD
26:885–902, 1992; carotenemia prominent on palms and soles
and nasolabial folds 
JAAD 48:641–659, 2003; congenital
hypothyroidism
Lycopenia
Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum
Riboflavinemia 
NEJM 294:177–183, 1976
Uremia 
Ghatan p.177, 2002, Second Edition
Vitamin A intoxication – yellow–orange skin 
JAAD 4:675–682,
1982
Vitamin B
12
deficiency
NEOPLASTIC DISEASES
Nevus lipomatosis superficialis
PARANEOPLASTIC DISEASES
Normolipemic plane xanthomas
Myeloma with xanthoderma – IgG lambda monoclonal
anti-flavin antibody 
NEJM 294:177–183, 1976