title: Lipophagic granulomatous panniculitis with lipoatrophy mimicking arthritis with pitting edema.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware 19899, USA.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Melchiorre
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Hyde
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Yussen
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Conard
mesh_terms: 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