Ultrastructural artefacts in biopsied normal myocardium and their relevance to myocardial biopsy in man.
- 1 February 1979
- Vol. 34 (1), 82-90
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.34.1.82
Abstract
Myocardial tissue biopsy specimens are used in the diagnosis of various myocardial diseases. A study of myocardial tissue, biopsied and processed in various ways and obtained from normal healthy experimental animals showed that a variety of artifacts may be found. These artifacts develop in reactive, beating myocardium but not in non-reactive hearts. The artifacts are often similar to, or mimic, changes described as pathological in origin. An artifact-free biopsy technique is described for valid pathological diagnoses of myocardial biopsies.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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