Fat pad

• Intraarticular fat pads. These are also covered by a layer of synovial cells. A fat pad sign is an elevation of the anterior and posterior fat pads of the elbow joint, and suggests the presence of an occult fracture.
• Buccal fat pad can be seen in nursing babies.
• The fat pad of the labia majora, which can be used as a graft, often as a so-called "Martius labial fat pad graft", which can be used, for example, in urethrolysis.
• Fat pads within the heels which when they get inflamed can cause heel pad syndrome
• The pads under the balls of the feet.