All issues > Volume 37(3); 1994

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1994;37(3):405-409. Published online March 15, 1994.

A Case of Subcutaneous Fat Necrosis Of the Newborn

Hong Shin HS Jeon¹, Myung Ik MI Lee¹, Don Hee DH Ahn¹, Hee Jun HJ Yoo²

¹Department of Pediatrics, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Dermatology, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

A 7 day old female baby suffered from perinatal asphyxia and trauma at birth. Subsequently, she had a violeceous subcutaneous plaque on back. The clinical setting, the skin manifestation and the histologic findings of the lesion were diagnostic of subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn. Histologic findings revealed fat necrosis with infiltration of inflammatory cells, foreign body giant cells and several fat cells contain needle shaped cleft in a radial arrangement. Four weeks later, the skin lesion was healed spontaneously.

Keywords :Subcutaneous fat necrosis, Needle shaped cleft