Word: endothelium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors have hesitated to use the plumber's method because they feared that peeling off the inner lining (endothelium), along with the dead tissue, calcium and fatlike substances, might lead to dangerous clotting. A team of five French doctors, headed by Dr. Louis Bazy, chief surgeon of Paris' St. Louis Hospital, has now apparently learned the trick. Dr. Bazy's team splits open the artery (in extreme cases for as much as two feet), scrapes out the stoppage, sews it up again. In a few minutes nature deposits white corpuscles along the wall of the scraped...
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