Images in Clinical Medicine

Kim Eagle, M.D., Editor

Cholesterol and Lipid Deposits

Markus M. Lerch, M.D., and Guido Adler, M.D.

N Engl J Med 1993; 328:321February 4, 1993

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Figure 1 Cholesterol and Lipid Deposits.

A specimen from the wall of the ascending aorta was excised from a 55-year-old patient at the time of aortocoronary bypass grafting. In a Sudan-stained cryosection viewed under polarized light, cholesterol (open arrow) and neutral lipid deposits (solid arrow) are evident in this atherosclerotic lesion (x710).

Kim Eagle, M.D.

Markus M. Lerch, M.D.
Guido Adler, M.D.
Ulm University, 7900 Ulm, Germany