A Lump from a Lifetime of Insulin

A patient with long-standing type 1 diabetes develops pendulous periumbilical masses. Explore a common complication of Insulin Therapy and its management.

Insulin lipohypertrophy


What is the diagnosis?

What is the most likely diagnosis?

Cushing’s syndrome
Divarication of the rectus abdominis
Familial partial lipodystrophy of the Dunnigan type
Insulin lipohypertrophy
Morgagni hernia

Endocrinology, Insulin, Insulin lipohypertrophy, Subcutaneous Fat, Type 1 Diabetes

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