Pathological examination revealed focal calcification and chronic inflammation of the mitral valve, with fibrosis and chronic inflammation of the papillary muscle. The postoperative course was ...

Results The COM papillary calculi were found to result from subepithelial injury. Many of these lesions underwent calcification by hydroxyapatite (HAP), with calculus morphology and the amount of ...

In these experiments either the anterior or the posterior papillary muscle was injected with ... surface of the valve cusp with replacement by calcification and chondrification (Fig.

Clear cell papillary renal cell carcinoma is a recently ... alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase, smooth muscle actin, desmin, estrogen and progesterone receptors) in 55 tumors from 34 patients, 8 ...

All patients had large numbers of subepithelial calcifications, with fewer papillary calculi, demonstrating that some subepithelial calcifications did not further evolve and were reabsorbed.