So-called cellulite: an invented disease

J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1978 Mar;4(3):221-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.1978.tb00416.x.

Abstract

The anatomic basis of so-called cellulite, the hormonal basis for the clinical condition, the prevalence of it, the essential normality and inevitability of it in women, the supervention of it in hormonally feminized men, and the near futility of treating the non-disease are explored in this paper.

MeSH terms

  • Adipose Tissue / anatomy & histology
  • Adipose Tissue / pathology
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Child
  • Connective Tissue / anatomy & histology
  • Connective Tissue / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypogonadism / pathology
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Klinefelter Syndrome / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Sex Factors
  • Skin / anatomy & histology*
  • Skin / pathology
  • Skin Diseases / pathology*