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Low-molecular-weight heparin-associated fat necrosis of the breast.

Das AK

Medicine for the Elderly, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. abhaylopa@yahoo.co.uk

Fat necrosis of the breast is a well-recognised complication of unfractionated heparin. The following is a case of fat necrosis due to low-molecular-weight heparin in a 91-year-old woman admitted to hospital with unstable angina.

Published 16 February 2005 in Age Ageing, 34(2): 193-4.
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