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NICO Necropsy Case, JOPM 1999 Album -- Figure #5c

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Calcific Fat Necrosis

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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