Popsicle Panniculitis

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Abstract
A RED nodule on an infants face may provoke mutilating or potentially dangerous intervention such as biopsy or antibiotic administration. This report describes a rarely recognized but probably quite common and benign cause of such a lesion.Case ReportAt the age of 12 weeks, this infant's weight and height were above the 90th percentile; she subsequently drank low-fat milk.At 6 months of age, a deeply situated, movable, firm, slightly elevated, warm red nodule 2 cm in diameter on the right cheek, adjacent to the mouth, developed over 24 hours (Fig. 1). There was no fever or palpable lymph-node . . .