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ONE of the curiosities of pathology concerns the nature of infarction. Why, when heart muscle dies as part of the total death of an animal, does it produce a histological picture which we term normal, yet when it dies locally in the midst of functioning muscle as a result of a coronary occlusion, it produces a totally different picture called “infarction”?
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GRAYSON, J. Thermal Conductivity of Normal and Infarcted Heart Muscle. Nature 215, 767–768 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215767a0
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