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...

INTRODUCTION Use of endermology (Endermologie®), which consists of a deep mechanical massage, in patients with multiple sclerosis receiving glatiramer acetate suggested improvements in injection-site indurations and panniculitis/lipoatrophy in our previous pilot experience. We aimed to assess the effect of endermology in a larger population of patients with multiple sclerosis receiving glatiram...

Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma is a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It presents clinically as panniculitis, with erythematous, firm subcutaneous infiltrates and recurrent papulonodules. A 45-year-old male Croat presented with a 6-month history of tender erythematous subcutaneous skin lesions without systemic symptoms. Analysis of a lesion biopsy specimen showed circumscribed ...

Glatiramer acetate (GA) is a drug that commonly is used for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Although it typically is known as a safe and effective therapy, a number of adverse effects associated with GA have been reported in the literature. Local injection-site reactions (LISRs) and mild systemic symptoms are among the most commonly described adverse effects. A r...

Lipomembranous panniculitis is a special type of fat necrosis which has been associated with several clinical conditions, mainly chronic venous insufficiency and connective tissue disorders such as lupus profundus, morphea, systemic sclerosis, and dermatomyositis .We report a 50 yearold woman with known rheumatoid arthritis who presented with a painful indurated erythematous plaque on her right...