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  2. Lipedema - Wikipedia

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    Compression stockings can help with pain and make walking easier. [3] Regularly moisturising with emollients protects the skin and prevents it from drying out. [3] Liposuction to remove the fat can help if the symptoms are particularly severe. [3] While surgery can remove fat tissue it can also damage lymphatic vessels. [2]

  3. Dercum's disease - Wikipedia

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    Dercum's disease is a rare condition characterized by multiple painful fatty tumors, called lipomas, that can grow anywhere in subcutaneous fat across the body. [1] Sometimes referred as adiposis dolorosa in medical literature, Dercum’s disease is more of a syndrome than a disease (because it has several clinically recognizable features, signs, and symptoms that are characteristic of it and ...

  4. Lipoma - Wikipedia

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    [7]: 625 [9] Fibrolipoma: Large amounts of fibrous tissue; A fibrolipoma is a lipoma with focal areas of large amounts of fibrous tissue. A sclerotic lipoma is a predominantly fibrous lesion with focal areas of fat. [12] Neural fibrolipomas are overgrowths of fibro-fatty tissue along a nerve trunk, which often leads to nerve compression. [7]: 625

  5. Fat necrosis - Wikipedia

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    Fat necrosis may result from various injuries to adipose tissue, including: physical trauma, enzymatic digestion of adipocytes by lipases, [3] radiation therapy, [4] hypoxia, or inflammation of subcutaneous fat (panniculitis). The gross appearance of fat necrosis is as an irregular, chalky white area within otherwise normal adipose tissue. [1]

  6. 7 Causes of Belly Fat (& How to Reduce It) - AOL

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    Joint problems and back pain . Stroke. Depression. Anxiety. Fatty liver disease. ... Menopause can cause belly fat in females too. You can’t pick and choose where you’ll lose weight, but ...

  7. Panniculitis - Wikipedia

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    It may be associated with pain and other signs of chronic venous insufficiency. The exact cause is unknown. [12] Other forms include: Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn, a form of panniculitis occurring in newborns that is usually self-resolving, that may be a result of hypoxic injury to relatively high levels of brown fat. [2]: 492

  8. Fat embolism syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The cause of death was revealed to be acute fat embolism, which resulted from the blunt force impact caused by the beatings, which led to the fatty tissue entering the bloodstream and eventually entering the blood vessels in the lungs, which led to a blockage and cut off the circulation of oxygenated blood and led to Ee's death by respiratory ...

  9. Breast mass - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms can include pain, firmness, redness, and/or bruising. Fat necrosis usually goes away without treatment but can form permanent scar tissue that may show up as an abnormality on a mammogram. [8] A lipoma is a non-cancerous lump of fatty tissue that is soft to the touch, usually movable, and is generally painless. [8]