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Clinical characteristics and efficacy of pioglitazone in a Japanese diabetic patient with an unusual type of familial partial lipodystrophy.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Dec 2009
Iwanishi Masanori, Ebihara Ken, Kusakabe Toru, Chen Wen, Ito Jun, Masuzaki Hiroaki, Hosoda Kiminori, Nakao Kazuwa
Abstract excerpt
This report describes a 46-year-old Japanese diabetic woman with an unusual type of familial partial lipodystrophy. She has marked loss of subcutaneous fat in her lower limbs and buttocks, with sparing of the face, neck, upper limbs, and trunk. This distribution of fat atrophy appears to be rare...
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