Vegetation (pathology) | |
Vegetation on mitral valve: Gross, natural color, close-up view of huge vegetation on posterior leaflet of mitral valve extending into atrium said to be Streptococci etiology presumably viridans Image courtesy of Professor Peter Anderson DVM PhD and published with permission © PEIR, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pathology |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
In medicine, a vegetation is an abnormal growth[1] named for its similarity to natural vegetation.
Vegetations are often associated with endocarditis.[2][3][4]
It can be made of fibrin[5] and platelets.[6]
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