Post-injection involutional lipoatrophy: Ultrastructural evidence for an activated macrophage phenotype and macrophage related involution of adipocytes

American Journal of Dermatopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 334-337

  Ahmed, Iftikhar ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Involutional lipoatrophy; Macrophage and ultrastructural analysis

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELBOW; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVOLUTION; LANGERHANS CELL; LIPOATROPHY; MACROPHAGE; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UPREGULATION;

ADIPOCYTES; ATROPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; STEROIDS;

EID: 33746788557     PISSN: 01931091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000372-200608000-00008     Document Type: Article

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