A Case of Lipodystrophia Centrifugalis Abdominalis Juvenilis.
- Author:
Chong Han CHUN
;
Byung Heon KIM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Lipodystrophis centrifugalis abdominalis juvenilis
- MeSH:
Abdomen;
Biopsy;
Blood Vessels;
Child;
Dermis;
Female;
Humans;
Thorax
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
1989;27(3):312-315
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
We report a case who has been diagnosed as lipodytrophia centrifugalis abdomialis juvenilis. The patient was a 9 year-old girl. At the age of 4 years, these well-defined, depressed lesions appeared in both ing-uinal areas and gradually spread to the labia major, the abdomen and both flank areas and, by 9 years, had reached lower portion of the chest. Biopsy specimen from the depressed lesion showed absence of the subcutsneous fat. The epidermal appendage were well preserved. There were lympho-histiocytic infiltrations around the blood vessels in the upper dermis.
