ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Metabolic disorders
Inborn errors of metabolism
5C52 — Inborn errors of lipid metabolism
5C52.2 — Neutral lipid storage disease
ICD-11 5C52.2 — Neutral lipid storage disease
Neutral lipid storage disease (NLSD) refers to a group of diseases characterised by a deficit in the degradation of cytoplasmic triglycerides and their accumulation in cytoplasmic lipid vacuoles in most tissues of the body. The group is heterogeneous: NLSD with icthyosis (NLSDI/Dorfman-Chanarin disease) and NLSD with myopathy (NLSDM/neutral lipid storage myopathy) can be distinguished.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.