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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Pathol. 2012 Jun 27;43(12):2213–2222. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2012.03.013

TABLE 1.

Histological Features of Coronary Vessels

Histological Feature Absence, n (%) Presence, n (%)
Plaque 4 (1) 267 (99)
Cholesterol deposits 72 (27) 199 (73)
Neovascularization in the adventitia 97 (36) 174 (64)
Neovascularization in the media/ intima 118 (44) 153 (56)
Inflammatory cell infiltration in the adventitia 95 (35) 176 (65)
Inflammatory cell infiltration in the media/ intima 141 (52) 130 (48)
Neural inflammation/ hemorrhage 219 (81) 52 (19)
Foam cells 139 (51) 132 (49)
Brown adipocytes 196 (72) 75 (28)
Dystrophic calcification 89 (33) 182 (67)
Bone 253 (93) 18 (7)