Fat necrosis is a form of necrosis characterized by the action upon fat by digestive enzymes.
In fat necrosis, the released fatty acids combine with calcium to form soaps. These soaps appear as white chalky deposits.
It is usually associated with trauma of the pancreas or acute pancreatitis.
It can also occur in the breast.
See also
- Necrosis
- Coagulative necrosis
- Liquefactive necrosis
- Caseous necrosis
References
- ^ "Cell Injury" . http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/CINJHTML/CINJ026.html .
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Lövey K, Fodor J, Major T, et al. (November 2007). "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. 69 (3): 724–31. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.03.055 . PMID 17524571 . http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0360-3016(07)00649-9 .
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