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Lipodystrophy, Generalized: Differential Diagnoses & Workup
Updated: Apr 25, 2008
- Overview
- Differential Diagnoses & Workup
- Treatment & Medication
- Follow-up
Differential Diagnoses
Other Problems to Be Considered
Consider the following causes of total lipodystrophy:
- Leprechaunism
- Diencephalic syndrome of infancy
- Congenital muscular dystrophy
Other forms of lipodystrophy include the following:
- Partial cephalothoracic lipodystrophy (Barraquer-Simon syndrome)
- Partial face-sparing lipodystrophy (Kobberling-Dunnigan syndrome)
- Lipoatrophic diabetes with tapetoretinal degeneration, late-onset generalized lipoatrophy, insulin-resistant hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia
Workup
Imaging Studies
- Radiographic features include advanced skeletal age, bone cysts, and dilated cerebral ventricles and basal cisterns on pneumoencephalography. Basal cisterns on pneumoencephalography correlated with other findings, demonstrating a high incidence of hypothalamic enlargement and possibly correlating with the tendency of patients with generalized lipodystrophy to have below-average intelligence.
- Subcutaneous fat in lipodystrophy types can be quantified by magnetic resonance imaging.3
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Further Reading
Keywords
Lawrence-Seip syndrome, Seip-Lawrence syndrome, congenital lipodystrophic diabetes with acanthosis nigricans, Berardinelli-Seip syndrome, acanthosis nigricans, generalized lipodystrophy
Differential Diagnoses & Workup: Lipodystrophy, Generalized