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Congenital generalized lipodystrophy. Report on one case, with special reference to postmortem findings
Acta Pathologica Et Microbiologica Scandinavica. Section A, Pathology
|January 1, 1976
Abstract:
Generalized lipodystrophy (Berardinelli-Seip's syndrome) was diagnosied in a boy at the age of 8-1/2 months. Ten months later he died because of aspiration of food. Necropsy with special reference to the CNS revealed hypothalamic lesions, probably of a malformative or hamartomatous nature. The findings lend additional support to the view that hypothalamic dysfunction is responsible for the signs and symptoms of generalized lipodystrophy.
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