subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn
Histologic Features
- Primarily a lobular panniculitis with a patchy inflammatory infiltrate
- Less prominent fat necrosis
- Many foamy histiocytes and multinucleated giant cells
- Crystalline clefts present within multinucleated giant histiocytes as well as many lipocytes
- Plasma cells in numbers within the inflammatory infiltrate
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