| Abstract: | Light, polarization, luminescent microscopy, phase contrast, special staining methods and scanning electron microscopy were used for studying sections and fragments of the endocardium and myocardium from 123 patients who had died of heart contusion and ischemic heart disease and from 50 rats with experimental heart contusion. The morphological classification of heart contusion and differential-diagnostic table of myocardial alterations due to contusion of the heart and ischemic heart disease are proposed to facilitate pathomorphological diagnosis of heart contusion. The classification of pathomorphological signs in heart contusion is presented. |
