Myocardial infarction without coronary artery atherosclerosis: pathological aspect

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a clinico-pathological condition resulted from an irreversible ischemic injury to cardiac myocytes. Myocardial infarction with normal coronary artery on angiogram (MINCA) is a widelyaccepted clinical term used to describe a group of patients presenting with the MI symptoms and signs but having a normal angiogram....

Comparison of α-smooth muscle actin expression between squamous cell carcinoma and pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia

To evaluate the usefulness of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) expression of reactive myofibroblastic cells within desmoplastic reaction tissue for distinction between invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia (PEH)....