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Fig. 5

From: Behçet’s disease: successful aortic root reconstruction in severely dilated aortoventricular junction after aortic valve replacement with novel surgical method – case report

Fig. 5

Histopathological section of the ascending aorta: Behçet’s disease involving the aorta. (a): Adventitial thickening is demonstrated using low-power magnification (HE, 10x) (b): Adventitial vasa vasoritis with luminal fibrotic narrowing (HE, 80x) and (c): moderate inflammatory infiltrate composed of mainly T-lymphocytes (brown), and small number of B-Lymphocytes (red) and macrophages (not labelled) in the wall (double staining immunohistochemistry, brown: CD3, red: CD20, 80x). (d): Concentric collagen deposition (dark blue) illustrating a chronic inflammation induced fibrosis (Crossmon, 80x)

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

ISSN: 1749-8090

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