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Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn is a rare form of lobular panniculitis occurring in newborns that is usually self-remitting and non-recurring. Proposed causes include perinatal stress, local trauma, hypoxia and hypothermia , though the exact cause is unknown.
Necrosis of subcutaneous fat without a significant inflammatory infiltrate and without obvious granulomatous changes, the formation of needle-shaped clefts in adipocytes, sometimes in a radial arrangement, and fibrous thickening of the tissue surrounding fat lobules are histopathologic findings that support a diagnosis of sclerema neonatorum.
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 Sclerema neonatorum, affecting premature births. [2]: 492
Subcutaneous fat necrosis may refer to: Pancreatic panniculitis; Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn This page was last edited on 30 ...
There are two types of belly fat: Subcutaneous fat. This is the fat that sits just under the skin and is more noticeable. Visceral fat. This is the fat that sits around the organs inside your abdomen.
Fat necrosis in the breast occurs around 0.6%, this represents 2.75% of lesions that end up being benign. However, 0.8% of fat necrosis occurs from tumors of the breast, 1–9% occurs in breast reduction surgery. Individuals that are high risk include women around the age of 50yrs along with pendulous breasts. [8]
Septal panniculitis is a condition of the subcutaneous fat affecting the layer of adipose tissue that lies between the dermis and underlying fascia, of which there are two forms: acute erythema nodosum and chronic erythema nodosum. [1]: 487–9
Subcutaneous fat necrosis; Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn; T. Tumor lysis syndrome; W. Weber–Christian disease This page was last edited on 1 April 2018 ...