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Postmortem Findings and Histologic, Histochemical, and Electron Microscopic Findings of Myocardial Biopsies

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Cardiomyopathy and Myocardial Biopsy

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The clinical classification of CMs [3, 4, 9], defined as a heart muscle disease of unknown cause or association [10], is used here. COCM, the type most commonly encountered, is of world-wide distribution. It is known by a variety of names which were reviewed by Cockshott etal. as early as 1967.

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  1. Zentrum der Inneren Medizin, Abteilung für Kardiologie, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 6000, Frankfurt/Main 70, Germany

    M. Kaltenbach

  2. Universität Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 4000, Düsseldorf 1, Germany

    F. Loogen (Direktor der I. Med. Klinik B) (Direktor der I. Med. Klinik B)

  3. Department of Anatomy and Histology, National Heart Hospital, Westmoreland Street, W1M 8 BA, London, UK

    E. G. J. Olsen M.D., M.R.C.Path. (Consultant Pathologist) (Consultant Pathologist)

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Olsen, E.G.J. (1978). Postmortem Findings and Histologic, Histochemical, and Electron Microscopic Findings of Myocardial Biopsies. In: Kaltenbach, M., Loogen, F., Olsen, E.G.J. (eds) Cardiomyopathy and Myocardial Biopsy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66772-5_6

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