Fat necrosis
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Fat necrosis is a form of necrosis characterized by the action upon fat by digestive enzymes.[1]
In fat necrosis the enzyme lipase releases fatty acids from triglycerides. The fatty acids then complex with calcium to form soaps. These soaps appear as white chalky deposits.[2]
It is usually associated with trauma of the pancreas or acute pancreatitis.[2][3]
It can also occur in the breast,[4] the salivary glands[5] and neonates after a traumatic delivery.
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- ↑ Cell Injury Full text, ,
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kumar, Vinay; Abbas, Abul K.; Fausto, Nelson; & Mitchell, Richard N. (2007). Robbins Basic Pathology (8th ed.). Saunders Elsevier. pp. 10-11 ISBN 978-1-4160-2973-1
- ↑ "fat necrosis" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ↑ , Fat necrosis after partial-breast irradiation with brachytherapy or electron irradiation versus standard whole-breast radiotherapy--4-year results of a randomized trial, Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., Vol. 69(Issue: 3), pp. 724–31, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.03.055, PMID: 17524571,
- ↑ Archived copy Full text, , Accessed on: 2011-09-19.
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