Cholesterol granuloma develops as a response to cholesterol acting as an irritant and causing foreign body giant cell formation. This more commonly affects horse and dog with no previous report in the heart of a fish. This report describes the pathological features of a multiple cholesterol granulomas affecting the heart of a piper gurnard, Trigla lyra.
Cardiac cholesterol granulomas in a piper gurnard, Trigla lyra (L.).
MAGI, Gian Enrico;ROSSI, Giacomo
2009-01-01
Abstract
Cholesterol granuloma develops as a response to cholesterol acting as an irritant and causing foreign body giant cell formation. This more commonly affects horse and dog with no previous report in the heart of a fish. This report describes the pathological features of a multiple cholesterol granulomas affecting the heart of a piper gurnard, Trigla lyra.File in questo prodotto:
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