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A fat pad is a mass of closely packed fat cells surrounded by fibrous tissue septa.〔(TheFreeDictionary > Fat pad ) Citing: Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. 2009〕 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 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fat pad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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