Open AccessPOST‐STEROID PANNICULITIS WITH CEREBRAL VASCULAR and PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS—REPORT OF AN AUTOPSY CASE
Author(s) -
Hirokawa K.,
Nishido T.,
Okuda M.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1972.tb01853.x
Subject(s) - panniculitis , medicine , pathology , autopsy , arteritis , lesion
An autopsy case report was made on a 28‐year‐old female who had systemic nodular panniculitis, necrotizing arteritis of the cerebral artery and unusual pulmonary lipogranuloma after massive, long‐term administration of corticosteroids for nephrotic syndrome. Panniculitis in this case was fairly consistent with the category of post‐steroid panniculitis and was thought to be the first adult case, of post‐steroid panniculitis developing in the internal as well as subcutaneous adipose tissue. The other two lesions in the brain and the lung above mentioned might be also regarded as adverse effects of corticosteroid therapy. The subcutaneous nodular lesion was studied chemically and histochemically, and the genesis of nodular panniculitis in this case was discussed as compared with sclerema neonatorum.