Microvasculature of carotid atheromatous plaques: Hemorrhagic plaques have dense microvessels with fenestrations to the arterial lumen

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1440-1446

  Kurata, Mie ^a,b   Nose, Masato ^a   Shimazu, Yoshihito ^c   Aoba, Takaaki ^c   Kohada, Yuki ^a   Yorioka, Soichiro ^a   Suehiro, Satomi ^a   Fukuoka, Erina ^a   Matsumoto, Shirabe ^a   Watanabe, Hideaki ^a   Kumon, Yoshiaki ^a   Okura, Takafumi ^a   Higaki, Jitsuo ^a   Masumoto, Junya ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; intraplaque hemorrhage; microvasculature of plaques; three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIGITAL MICROSCOPE; ERYTHROCYTE; FENESTRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MACROPHAGE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID STENOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TUNICA MEDIA;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; MICROVESSELS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 84902439462     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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