A 7-year-old Caucasian girl developed lipoatrophic areas on the abdomen and left thigh. Laboratory tests showed a partial IgA deficiency, circulating autoantibodies (ANAs, double- and single-stranded anti-DNAs, rheumatoid factor). The clinical aspect resembles lipodystrophia centrifugalis abdominalis infantilis, but autoimmune abnormalities suggest connective tissue panniculitis which underlines the overlap between the different forms of localized lipoatrophias.
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