title: A case of lipodystrophia centrifugalis abdominalis infantilis with morphea.
abstract: A 5-year-old female developed three depressed lesions sequentially on her left hip, left upper arm and left Achilles tendon; we diagnosed them as lipodystrophia centrifugalis abdominalis infantilis (LCAI). She also developed two sclerotic lesions, at almost the same time, on her left upper arm and left forearm; we diagnosed them as morphea. Clinical and histopathological examination revealed that the LCAI and morphea seen in our case were completely different. Although two other cases of co-existing LCAI and morphea have already been reported, they were not described in detail and their morphea lesions were adjacent to their LCAI lesions. We herein report a case of LCAI with morphea in which the lesions were not adjacent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ikoma
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyachi
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008060:Lipodystrophy / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D012594:Scleroderma, Localized / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*