When one looks at atherosclerotic plaques in an artery on the autopsy table, one is viewing a group of lesions that have been present for an unknown length of time and may have bad a multiplicity of causes. Perhaps this white fibrous plaque was initiated fifty years ago and has existed since then. Perhaps it lost lipid during a period of regression. That ulcerated atheroma may have slowly accumulated lipid following a surface thrombosis five years before death. A yellow plaque which could have developed following an intimal injury may have increased in size by short episodes of lipid accumulation associated with haemorrhage into its substance.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113527 |
Date | January 1961 |
Creators | Silver, Malcolm. D. |
Contributors | McMillan, G. (Supervisor) |
Publisher | McGill University |
Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Format | application/pdf |
Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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