Diminutive Gastrointestinal Lesions in Cholesterol Crystal Embolization
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Cholesterol crystal embolization.
of toes), strongly suggests this disease. Biopsy of the skin or the kidney demonstrates cholesterol crystals, biconvex, needle-shaped clefts whitin the occluded vessel. These intraluminal lesions are often accompanied by a perivascular inflammatory reaction that may contain eosinophils [2] . The reported incidence of renal atheroembolic disease during the last 10 years seems to have increased b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861124