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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Imaging Med. 2010 Feb 1;2(1):63–75. doi: 10.2217/iim.09.33

Figure 3. Appearance of the fibrous cap on MRI obtained prior to carotid endarterectomy, with matching gross and histological cross sections of the excised specimen.

Figure 3

Cap rupture is seen at the 8:00–9:00 position (arrow 1) on histology and MRI, with associated recent intraplaque hemorrhage (arrow 2). Adjacent thick cap is seen (arrow 3) as a dark band on magnetic resonance image. Reproduced with permission from [44].