De la Torre-Gutiérrez M, Padilla-Muñoz H, Pérez Rulfo-Ibarra D, Castillo-Villarruel F, Angulo-Castellanos E, Campos-Sierra A, Barrera-Sánchez FJ, Stanley-Lucero MA, Alfaro-Castellanos DE, García-Magdaleno PE, Pérez-Gómez HR

Language: Spanish
References: 4
Page: 248-250
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ABSTRACT

Subcutaneous fat necrosis in the newborn is a transitory lobular panniculitis that might be induced by cutaneous hypoxemia and adipocyte necrosis. The lesions usually manifest within the first two weeks of age, could be unique or multiple and present as indurated hypodermic nodules with lobular surface that tend to appear in the areas possessing adipose cushions. This is a case of a 10-days-old female newborn who presented at the six days of age erythematosusviolet nodules, defined on shoulders and both upper and lower limbs, not painful, not hyperthermal. We carried out a biopsy in the left arm's nodule reporting fat necrosis with cell detritus, calcium deposits, lymphohistiocytic infiltrate and mature residual adipose cells. Neither microorganisms nor glanulomas were identified and there is no data suggesting malignity. Favorably, our patient presented a satisfactory evolution, with spontaneous resolution to lesions and without presenting complications.

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