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• pseudolipomatosis
  26 May 2009

  Pseudolipomatosis is an artifactual microscopic change in tissues that resembles fatty infiltration, most often described in the gastrointestinal tract.
  The fatlike spaces represent air or gas bubbles that enter the mucosa through microscopic ruptures secondary to gaseous insufflation.
  Pseudolipomatosis could derive from air that is almost invariably introduced into the uterus during media insufflation for hysteroscopy, creating a bubble under pressure. (#19440147#)
  The air enters (...)