No Histological Difference between Large Atherosclerotic and Cardiogenic Embolic Thrombus

Figure 1

(a) A cardiogenic thrombus retrieved from a 73-year-old man with the occlusion of right internal carotid artery. (b) An atherosclerotic thrombus of a 72-year-old man with the occlusion of both right internal carotid artery and right middle cerebral artery. Between the two pictures, we can see the platelet trabecula (red arrow) and neutrophils (green arrow) are distributed around the platelet trabecula, and there were a large number of red blood cells (yellow arrow) between the trabeculae.

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