[Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn].
Subcutaneous fat necrosis presents as red-to-bluish, indolent, well-circumscribed, subcutaneous nodules and plaques, unusually in healthy infants. Histologically, a lobular panniculitis with a mixed inflammatory infiltrate is seen. Characteristic crystalloid structures can be found within some of the lipocytes and, most prominently, within macrophages. This rarely diagnosed skin disease is harmless and self-limited, yet the associated hypercalcaemia has a high complication rate.
Wessling-Assmann
Kathrin
K
Universitäts-Hautklinik Münster. assmannk@uni-muenster.de
Traupe
H
H
Bonsmann
G
G
Metze
D
D
D005218:Fat Necrosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D050151:Subcutaneous Fat / Q000473:pathology*