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Computed tomography angiography of the aorta and iliac arteries after admission with (a) outline of the blood-filled lumen, transverse sections through: (b) the descending aorta, (c) the superior mesenteric artery and left renal artery ostia, and (d) the right renal ostium.
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A pararenal abdominal aneurysm measured 8.4 cm in maximal diameter (Fig. 1).
Microscopic sections of resected small intestine (upper panel) and of juxta-intestinal tissue (lower panel) show atheroemboli with cholesterol crystals. Sections were stained with haematoxylin and eosin.
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Among hundreds of intestinal and juxta-intestinal mesenteric vessels that were examined microscopically, three arteries with a luminal diameter of approximately 0.5 mm contained cholesterol emboli (Fig. 2).