To the Editor: Popsicle panniculitis is a type of cold panniculitis that affects the cheeks of young children, is self-limited, and may be mistaken for cellulitis. The diagnosis may be missed unless a detailed history is elicited. We present a 5-month-old child who developed bilateral popsicle panniculitis on his cheeks despite being on systemic prednisolone for a large facial hemangioma. A 5-m...

Alpha-1-Antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency associated panniculitis is commonly included in the dermatologist's differential diagnosis but the disease is rarely ever diagnosed or discussed. The pathophysiology, clinical presentation, histopathology, diagnosis, and treatment of AAT deficiency panniculitis will be reviewed.

A rare triad composed of lobular panniculitis in the setting of pancreatitis and polyarthritis is termed panniculitis, pancreatitis, and polyarthritis (PPP) syndrome. Pancreatic panniculitis is a rare form of subcutaneous fat necrosis associated with underlying pancreatic disease. We describe a case of PPP syndrome and review the relevant literature associated with this rare clinical syndrome. ...

Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare condition of unknown etiology that causes inflammation of the adipose tissue in the mesentery. We describe a case in which mesenteric panniculitis was diagnosed on the basis of imaging and resolved spontaneously.

Panniculitis refers to the inflammation of subcutaneous fat. Subacute nodular migratory panniculitis (Aka Vilanova disease) is a rare type seen predominantly in women. Clinically, it closely resembles erythema nodosum but often unilateral as opposed bilateral involvement nodosum. Triggering factors include infections, drugs, thyroid disorders, pregnancy, or malignancies. We report case 52-year-...

A 28-year-old male patient, presented with a one-week history of pain and itching on the skin of the left upper leg. Erythematous indurated, warm and painful on palpation, subcutaneous plaques and nodules were clinically observed, affecting the skin of the left upper leg, within a recent black-wolf tattoo. The diagnosis of traumatic panniculitis with superposed bacterial infection, provoked by ...

BACKGROUND Gouty panniculitis is a rare clinical manifestation of gout, characterized by deposits of monosodium urate crystals in the hypodermis. Our aim was to describe atypical and rare clinical presentations of gouty tophi. METHODS We searched relevant English and Spanish literature of unusual gout manifestations using the following keywords: giant, gout, panniculitis, gouty panniculitis, ...

We read the article in May 2007 issue of the Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas, “Mesenteric panniculitis: experience in our center” by Delgado Plasencia et al. with a great interest (1). Mesenteric panniculitis, which is a rare disorder with an incidence of 0.6%, is characterized by a chronic non-specific inflammatory process involving the adipose tissue of intestinal mesentery. This ...

INTRODUCTION Endermology is a mechanical massage therapy that enables fat mobilization and body contouring. The authors' aim was to assess the effect of endermology on indurations and panniculitis/lipoatrophy associated with subcutaneous administration of glatiramer acetate in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS This was a multicenter pilot experience carried out in patients with M...

BACKGROUND The role of positron emission tomography (PET) of the mesentery as a diagnostic modality in cases of mesenteric panniculitis is unclear. CASE PRESENTATION A 67-year-old woman presented with rectal bleeding due to nonocclusive colonic ischemia. Abdominal CT showed features of mesenteric panniculitis. PET-CT demonstrated no abnormal fluorine-18 fluordeoxyglucose uptake in the affecte...