So-called cellulite: an invented disease.
The anatomic basis of so-called cellulite, the hormonal basis for the clinical condition, the prevalence of it, the essential normality and inevitability of it in women, the supervention of it in hormonally feminized men, and the near futility of treating the non-disease are explored in this paper.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007006:Hypogonadism / Q000473:pathology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007713:Klinefelter Syndrome / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012867:Skin / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000473:pathology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000473:pathology*