[Morphological peculiarities of the adipose tissue and their significance for the ultrasound lipodestruction].

Using the autopsy material obtained from 20 human corpses, the samples of subcutaneous adipose tissue of the gluteal, abdominal, inguino-ileal and axillar areas, as well as the samples of mesenterial, retroperitoneal, mediastinal, pararectal and paranephral adipose tissue was studied histologically. The average sizes of the lobes and of adipocytes were measured, and the degree of the development of connective tissue elements was determined. Adipose tissue was found to have a similar general structural plan in all the areas studied, however the differences were noted in the thickness of the interlobular connective tissue septae and in tissue vascularization. The gluteal, inguino-ileal and anterior abdominal wall adipose tissue had the highest density. The lobules of this adipose tissue possessed the minimal numbers of adipocytes that had the smallest size. The mediastinal, retroperitoneal and paranephral adipose tissue was classified as a relatively loose one. The velocity of lipodestruction depended the degree of the development of connective tissue septae: this process proceed most rapidly in the mediastinal adipose tissue and most slowly--in the gluteal adipose tissue. In all the other areas studied, the duration of lipodestruction was the intermediate one.