title: Congenital generalized lipodystrophy in a 4 year old Chinese girl.
abstract: Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by near complete absence of adipose tissue since birth and insulin resistance. The diagnosis is made on the basis of lack of body fat, muscular hypertrophy, acanthosis nigricans, hirsutism, hepatomegaly with fatty liver, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia with insulin resistance. We describe a 4-year-old Chinese girl with the clinical features of CGL.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, The Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University of Medicine, 57 Zhugan Xiang, Hangzhou 310 003, China.
authors.forename: Guanping
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Chaochun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zou
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China; D003923:Diabetes Mellitus, Lipoatrophic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000178:diet therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015228:Hypertriglyceridemia / Q000178:diet therapy