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SYLVAN E. MOOLTEN, M.D.; LEO VROMAN; GEORGINE M. S. VROMAN; BETTY GOODMAN

Arch Intern Med. 1949;84(5):667-710.

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DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN CONCEPTS OF THROMBUS FORMATION

IN THE first half of the nineteenth century, thrombosis of blood vessels was held to result either from excessive coagulability of the blood or from exudative inflammation of the vascular wall. Virchow's views¹ influenced subsequent thought on the subject of intravascular clotting by their stress on the importance of slowing or stagnation of blood flow as well as on altered "molecular attraction" between the blood and the vascular wall.

By means of experiments in living animals, Mantegazza² (1869, 1871) and Zahn³ (1875) assembled proof that thrombosis is not equivalent to simple clot formation but consists primarily in a process of selective precipitation of protoplasmic elements from the flowing blood at sites of vascular injury to form a homogeneous, grayish white deposit (the "white thrombus"). With complete occlusion of the lumen by the white thrombus, the blood which is trapped in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.

From the Research Division, Laboratory Service, St. Peter's General Hospital.

Footnotes
This study was aided by grants from the Dazian Foundation, Dr. F. M. Clarke and Mr. Harry Hillman.