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. 2016 Dec 30;6(4):5-7.
doi: 10.4322/acr.2016.050. eCollection 2016 Oct-Dec.

"Bread and butter" fibrinous pericarditis

Pedro Mansueto Melo de Souza  1 , Adriele Machado Dos Santos  1 , Eurides Martins Paulino  2 , Carlos Gustavo Hirth  3 , Conceição Aparecida Dornelas  1
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"Bread and butter" fibrinous pericarditis

Pedro Mansueto Melo de Souza et al. Autops Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: History of Medicine; Leukemia; Pericarditis.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Gross view of the block of the thoracic organs showing the anatomic relationship between the lungs with “beefy red consolidation” and the heart recovered by bright yellow fibrin in a “bread and butter” pattern
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