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Blocking of a blood vessel by CHOLESTEROL-rich atheromatous deposits, generally occurring in the flow from a large artery to small arterial branches. It is also called arterial-arterial embolization or atheroembolism which may be spontaneous or iatrogenic. Patients with spontaneous atheroembolism often have painful, cyanotic digits of acute onset.
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- Atheroembolism
- Embolism, Cholesterol
- Atheroembolisms
- Cholesterol Embolisms
- Embolisms, Cholesterol
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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- Cholesterol (1966-1993)
- Embolism (1966-1993)
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- National Library of Medicine. Cholesterol Embolism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017700. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017700
- Cholesterol Embolism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol_embolism
- Cholesterol Embolism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840004