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Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 96:F377 doi:10.1136/adc.2010.207886
  • Images in neonatal medicine

Total body cooling: skin and renal complications

  1. Fabio Mosca1
  1. 1NICU, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
  2. 2Institute of Pediatrics-Pediatric Radiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Monica Fumagalli, NICU, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Commenda 12, 20122 Milan, Italy; monica.fumagalli{at}mangiagalli.it
  • Accepted 12 March 2011
  • Published Online First 16 May 2011

Subcutaneous fat necrosis (SFN) is a rare, self-limiting panniculitis mostly reported in infancy and childhood. Newborns and infants have a greater saturated to unsaturated fats ratio in their subcutaneous fat compared with older children and adults, causing an increased tendency to crystallise with cold stress.1

A full-term baby suffering hypoxic …

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