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Maternal spiral arteries which fail to undergo remodeling may demonstrate a vascular lesion known as acute atherosis. Lipid laden cells (blue arrow) and thickened, fibrinoid deposits in the vessel wall (black arrow) are characteristics of this lesion. Potential lipid containing macrophages (denoted by asterisk) are also apparent in this section.
