Lipophagic granulomatous panniculitis with lipoatrophy mimicking arthritis with pitting edema.
We describe a preadolescent girl with intense ankle synovitis and pitting edema that obscured the subcutaneous origin of the inflammation. Typical nodular disease emerged after corticosteroid tapering when regional atrophy developed.
Melchiorre
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Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware 19899, USA.
Rose
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Hyde
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Yussen
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Conard
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D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D001168:Arthritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001284:Atrophy; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004487:Edema; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015434:Panniculitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology