title: [Nodular panniculitis--a paraneoplastic syndrome in pancreatic carcinoma].
abstract: A 68-year-old woman is described, who suffered from painful, subcutaneous nodules on her lower extremities. The clinical investigations revealed a solitary liver metastasis of a pancreatic carcinoma removed seven years before. Her serum lipase was 6088 U/l (normal value < 190 U/l). After embolisation and surgical resection of the metastasis the serum lipase level became unmeasurably low and the painful nodular panniculitis disappeared completely. Nodular panniculitis is a paraneoplastic syndrome not well known among physicians, which was easily treatable in our case.
authors.affiliation: Departement Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital Chur.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Reinhart
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018267:Carcinoma, Acinar Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010201:Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology