Fat necrosis in the breast happens when fat tissue in your breast dies, usually because of an injury or procedure. It's not dangerous to your health, and you may not feel any discomfort.

A 69-year-old woman presented with a large, deep area of skin necrosis on the right breast. One month earlier, the patient had undergone a surgical treatment for a frontal-parietal meningioma.

Blood vessels grown in the lab in just five days could quickly prevent the tissue damage that can occur after an accident ...

As a result, the skin tissue can die, a phenomenon called skin necrosis. In a 2020 study of 97 people bitten by the spider, 40.2% experienced hemolysis, the damaging or breaking down of red blood ...

Warfarin-induced skin necrosis (WISN) occurs in only 0.01%-0.1% [1,4,5] of patients taking the drug; the incidence is higher in middle-aged women. This side effect typically appears during the ...