Korean J Dermatol.  1993 Feb;31(1):109-113.

A case of Weber-christian disease in a child

Abstract

Weber-Christian disease is an inflammatory disease of subcutneious fat tissue which is clinically characterized by relapsing, febrile, nodular, nonsuppurative pannicutilitiy. The cause is unknown, but the disease has been attributed to an autoimmune reaction, infectioris, halogen compounds, sarcoidosis, SLE and a-antitrypsin deficiency. We report here in a case of Weber-Christian disease in a 8-year-old girl, who had indurated erythemataus subcutaneous nodules on the extremities, buttock and trunk accompanied by various general symptoms such as fever, malaise, arthralgia and edema of the abclorren and legs. This case was successfully treated with dapsone,

Keyword

Weber-Christian disease; Child

MeSH Terms

Arthralgia
Buttocks
Child*
Dapsone
Edema
Extremities
Female
Fever
Humans
Leg
Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative*
Sarcoidosis
Dapsone
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