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Article: Research reports from National Cheng-Kung University provide new insights into differential diagnosis cell biology.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- March 25, 2009
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Fresh data on differential diagnosis are presented in the report 'Lipodermatosclerosis: a clinicopathologic study of 17 cases and differential diagnosis from erythema nodosum.' According to a study from Tainan, Taiwan, "The clinical manifestations of lipodermatosclerosis (LDS) may mimic cellulitis and various panniculitides. To better characterize the histopathologic changes of LDS, we reviewed the clinicopathologic findings of 26 cases with a pathologic diagnosis consistent with LDS."
"A final diagnosis of LDS was made in 17 cases based on the clinicopathological correlation. As some cases manifested erythema nodosum (EN)-like lesions, 14 specimens of EN were ...