The cause of the disease remains unknown, but its incidence strongly correlates with alcohol use disorder; abstinence from alcohol prevents disease progression. Defects in the adrenergic-stimulated lipolysis and accumulation of embryological brown fat have also been reported. Cosmetic disfigurement due to the fat deposition in the cervicothoracic region results in a "pseudoathletic appearance", resembling the Italian statue Warrior of Capestrano and carvings of Queen of Punt (Egypt).
Benign symmetric lipomatosis
Lipoblastomatosis
Facial infiltrating lipomatosis
Gingival fibromatosis with hypertrichosis
Generalized granuloma annulare
Florid cutaneous papillomatosis
Familial multiple lipomatosis
Lipodermatosclerosis