IPLab:Lab 10:Mucormycosis

Images

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  This is a low-power photomicrograph of a section of carotid artery containing a mural thrombus.
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  This is a higher-power photomicrograph of the wall of the carotid artery (1) and the thrombus (2).
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  This is an even higher-power photomicrograph of the wall of the carotid artery (1) and the thrombus (2). Within the wall of the artery and in the thrombus there are multiple variably shaped clear areas (3). At this magnification and with this stain, it is impossible to determine what these clear spaces represent.
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  This is a higher-power photomicrograph of just the wall of the carotid artery. Note the ribbon-like clear structure with roughly parallel walls (non-septate hyphae) and right-angle branching (arrow). This is the Mucor organism.
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  This is another high-power photomicrograph of the wall of the artery and the thrombus. Within the thrombus there are multiple variably-shaped clear areas that represent longitudinal sections and cross sections of the Mucor organisms (arrows).
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  This medium-power photomicrograph shows the thrombus stained to outline the Mucor organisms (arrows). Note again the ribbon-like morphology and the wide-angle branching.
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  This is an even higher-power photomicrograph of the thrombus stained to outline the Mucor organisms (arrows).
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  This is another high-power photomicrograph of the thrombus stained to outline the Mucor organisms (arrows).

Mural thrombosis is the formation of multiple thrombi along an injured endocardial wall.

A thrombus is a solid mass resulting from the aggregation of blood constituents within the vascular system.