INTRODUCTION Atheroma of the facial artery is an extremely rare disease. CLINICAL FINDINGS/PATIENT CONCERNS Herein, we report an extremely rare case of an atheroma arising from the facial artery, mimicking a parotid gland tumor. DIAGNOSES The preoperative diagnosis was a right-sided parotid gland tumor. INTERVENTIONS We performed removal of the right parotid gland tumor, via a modified fa...

Introduction. Currently, despite the introduction of modern diagnostic algorithms in 20-40 % patients with ischemic stroke, it is not possible to establish its cause. Potential causes acute cerebral ischemia cryptogenic stroke include paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, patent foramen ovale, cardiomyopathy, carotid network, aortic arch atheroma, and cancer-associated thrombophilia. Target : systema...

background and objective: ischemic heart disease (ihd) following atherosclerosis is the most common cause of cardiac deaths world wide. we aimed to investigate the pathologic features of atherosclerosis in non cardiac death cases to have an estimate of atherosclerosis prevalence in mashad (north east of iran). patients and methods : this descriptive (cross sectional) study was done, during octo...

There are many theories today concerning the etiology of coronary heart disease, but much of current thinking can be summed up in two syllogisms. The first is, "Coronary heart disease is becoming more common; you cannot have coronary heart disease without atheroma: therefore, atheroma must be more common"; and the second, "Populations with high death rates from coronary heart disease have on th...

OBJECTIVES The ortopantomography (OPG) can be a valuable way for an early detection of calcified atheroma plaques, thus contributing for a preliminary stroke risk evaluation. The study looks for the existence of calcified atheroma plates through the use of OPG, comparing the results with the stenosis percentage found through eco-doppler. It has been analyzed the correlation of the number of yea...

Lesions in the rabbit aorta that occur spontaneously and contain no lipid consist of intimal mesenchymal proliferation and of medial sclerosis. Although the relationship of diet-induced atheroma to the intimal mesenchymal alterations is still not clear, our experiments have established that (a) the morphologic characteristics of diet-induced atheroma and of the spontaneous medial lesions are di...