Fat pad
A fat pad is a mass of closely packed fat cells surrounded by fibrous tissue septa.[1] They may be extensively supplied with capillaries and nerve endings.[1]
Examples are:
- Intraarticular fat pads. These are also covered by a layer of synovial cells.[1] A fat pad sign is an elevation of the anterior and posterior fat pads of the elbow joint, and suggests the presence of an occult fracture.
- Buccal fat pad can be seen in nursing babies.[1]
- The fat pad of the labia majora, which can be used as a graft, often as a so-called "Martius labial fat pad graft", which can be used, for example, in urethrolysis.[2]
- Fat pads within the heels which when they get inflamed can cause heel pad syndrome
- The pads under the balls of the feet.
References
- 1 2 3 4 TheFreeDictionary > Fat pad Citing: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009
- ↑ Carey, J. M.; Chon, J. K.; Leach, G. E. (2003). "Urethrolysis with martius labial fat pad graft for iatrogenic bladder outlet obstruction". Urology. 61 (4): 21–25. doi:10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00117-1. PMID 12657357.
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