Spontaneous coronary artery perforation with tamponade. Demonstration by necropsy selective coronary arteriography.
Pericardial tamponade in a 51-year-old man after acute anteroseptal myocardial infarction was the result of spontaneous perforation of an atheromatous coronary artery. The value of a simple necropsy technique of selective coronary arteriography in demonstrating the lesion is described.
D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000473:pathology; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous