OT!! Weber-Christian panniculitis: a review of 30 cases with this diagnosis.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=Abstra\

ctPlus & list_uids=9674398 & query_hl=14 & itool=pubmed_docsum

CONCLUSION: The recognition of distinct disease patterns of fat

lesions as fat necrosis with pancreatic disease, alpha1-antitrypsin

panniculitis, lupus and connective tissue disease panniculitis,

involution lipoatrophy, lipomembranous panniculitis, factitial

panniculitis syndromes, calcification panniculitis, lipophagic

lipoatrophy, and cytophagic panniculitis has lessened the need for a

less specific panniculitis category. All these diseases have been

reported in the literature as " Weber-Christian disease. " Because

separate and distinct forms of fat lesions have been described, we

believe that the eponym should be abandoned and that more specific

diagnoses should be made on the basis of pathogenesis or cause.