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Arteriosclerosis and Its Risk Factors

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Radiology of Peripheral Vascular Diseases

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The aorta and its major branches are elastic-type arteries; their intima is thicker than that of the extremity arteries. The extremity arteries are of a muscular structure, characterized by a media full of muscle. Around several layers of muscle cells there is elastic and collagenous tissue (Egner et al. 1997; Wolf and Werthessen 1979).

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Zeitler, E. (2000). Arteriosclerosis and Its Risk Factors. In: Zeitler, E. (eds) Radiology of Peripheral Vascular Diseases. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56956-2_3

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