Can Fat Grafts Metastasize During Removal and Cause New Fat Parcels to Show Up?

If a Lipoma removal can cause more Lipoma formations, than couldnt a fat graft that is removed result in more fat graft nodules forming?Of course you would not see them show up for a few years because they would start so small.(I think this may have happaned to me)

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Lipoma removal does NOT cause more Lipoma formations and Fat Grafts do NOT "metastasize"

Regarding: " Can fat grafts metastasize during removal and cause new fat parcels to show up? If a Lipoma removal can cause more Lipoma formations, than couldnt a fat graft that is removed result in more fat graft nodules forming?Of course you would not see them show up for a few years because they would start so small.(I think this may have happaned to me" First, a few corrections. Lipoma removal does NOT cause other Lipoma formations. Lipoma is a benign growth whose... more

Fat transfer

Fat graft are made up of largely fat cells with a few other cells. These are none cancerous and do not generate (proliferate) additional fat cells. Thus they can not metastasize.