Fat Necrosis
"Fat Necrosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A condition in which the death of adipose tissue results in neutral fats being split into fatty acids and glycerol.
| Descriptor ID |
D005218
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.717.365
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| Concept/Terms |
Fat Necrosis- Fat Necrosis
- Fat Necroses
- Necrosis, Fat
- Steatonecrosis
- Steatonecroses
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fat Necrosis" by people in Profiles.
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Davidson T, Lotan E, Klang E, Nissan J, Goldstein J, Goshen E, Ben-Haim S, Apter S, Chikman B. Fat necrosis after abdominal surgery: A pitfall in interpretation of FDG-PET/CT. Eur Radiol. 2018 Jun; 28(6):2264-2272.