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SERRA ORTEGA, Alain; FERNANDEZ-BRITTO RODRIGUEZ, José  e  CAMPOS, R. Pathomorphological and morphometric association of the atherosclerotic lesion in seven different arterial sectors. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2008, vol.27, n.3-4. ISSN 0864-0300.

Four hundred and sixty necropsies of patients from "Carlos J. Finlay" Hospital performed between 1999 and 2003 were investigated. Eighteen arteries from the following seven vascular arteries were analyzed: Willis circle, considered as only one artery, the three epicardial coronaries (right, anterior descending and left circumflex) , the aorta (thoracic and abdominal); the two renal, the iliac and the phemoral. An atherometric system was used for the pathomorphological and morphometric study. The arteries were dissected, fixed and coloured. A qualitative and quantitative analysis was made for the statistical study by canonical correlation. Among the most important results there were observed very strong correlations between the adipose stria, the fibrous plaque and the severe plaque in the analyses of all among all the investigated arteries, with a few exceptions. All these results strongly suggest that atherosclerosis is a process of systemic distribution

Palavras-chave : Systemic atherosclerosis; atherosclerotic lesion; canonical correlation; atherometric system.