Site of intimal rupture or erosion of thrombosed coronary atherosclerotic plaques is characterized by an inflammatory process irrespective of the dominant plaque morphology

Circulation

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 36-44

  Van Der Wal, Allard C ^a   Becker, Anton E ^a,b   Van Der Loos, Chris M ^a   Das, Pranab K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; myocardial infarction; plaques

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; EROSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTIMA; MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0028085059     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.89.1.36     Document Type: Article

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