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NICO Necropsy Case, JOPM 1999 Album -- Figure #5c |
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Calcific Fat Necrosis |
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Fat necrosis under certain conditions will show abundant precipitated salts that impart a dark, granular, smudged appearance. Here fatty microvesicles (another sign of fat cell death) are admixed with dead but still intact adipocytes. The bone still appears predominantly viable. |
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