Retroperitoneal panniculitis

Retroperitoneal panniculitis.

To cite: Terada N, Tanaka T, Fujimoto T, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-212670 DESCRIPTION A 21-year-old Japanese woman developed acute onset of persistent epigastric pain and nausea, and presented to the emergency department 12 h after the onset of symptoms. There was no significant medical history, nor was there allergy, significant...

Panniculitis

Mesenteric panniculitis.

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.

Mesenteric panniculitis

A 53-year-old black woman presented with a 3-day history of abdominal pain. Ultrasound of the abdomen showed a gall bladder packed with small stones. She gave a history of abdominal surgery for a gynaecological condition. She had a cholecystectomy done, but her symptoms continued after cholecystectomy. She then had anendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram (ERCP) and sphincterotomy done, a...

Wolf’s Panniculitis

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 ...