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Figure 1 Longitudinal Sectioning of Coronary Tissue

This section was taken from a 78-year-old Caucasian man, 1 week status postmyocardial infarction, who died of a cerebrovascular accident. (A and B) Coronary arteries cut longitudinally at 20-mm increments to expose the vessel lumen. (C) Histology of a representative section visualized with the combined Verhoeff elastic-Gomori trichrome stain. Red box expanded in D displaying a thin-capped fibroatheroma characterized by a large lipid-rich necrotic core overlaid by a thin fibrous cap.