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Fat pad

Encapsulated adipose tissue

Encapsulated adipose tissue

A fat pad (aka haversian gland) is a mass of closely packed fat cells surrounded by fibrous tissue septa. They may be extensively supplied with capillaries and nerve endings.

Examples are:

  • Intraarticular fat pads. These are also covered by a layer of synovial cells. 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.
  • 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.
  • Fat pads within the heels which when they get inflamed can cause heel pad syndrome
  • The pads under the balls of the feet.
  • The eight pairs of focal fat pads running from the armpit to the groin found in all lean women and men in a curved linear arrangement identical to the mammary ridge lines seen in human embryos.

References

References

  1. [http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fat+pad TheFreeDictionary > Fat pad] Citing: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009
  2. (April 2003). "Urethrolysis with Martius labial fat pad graft for iatrogenic bladder outlet obstruction". Urology.
  3. (October 2021). "Newly Identified Gross Human Anatomy: Eight Paired Vestigial Breast Mounds Run along the Embryological Mammary Ridges in Lean Adults". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open.
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