A novel method of macropathologic and arteriographic examination of carotid specimens obtained from autopsy.
Twenty carotid bifurcations were examined. During autopsy, carotid bifurcations were removed in toto. Unfixed carotids were ligated and cannulated for injection of an angiographic contrast medium followed by injection of a tissue-embedding medium at physiologic pressure and temperature. The carotid bifurcation was frozen and cut manually in 3-mm cross-sections. Photographs were then taken of every slice. Angiography, filling with tissue-embedding material, and sectioning were successful in all cases. In the macropathologic sections, the extent, configuration and location of atherosclerotic lesions could be identified.
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Department of Neurology, University Medical School of Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98, H-4012 Debrecen, Hungary. gernot.SAD@gmx.de
Droste
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Kollár
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Hegedüs
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Gomba
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Ringelstein
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Csiba
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D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D001344:Autopsy / Q000379:methods; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male