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Fatty streak
Fatty streak, though not composed of fat, is the term generally given to the earliest stages of atheroma, as viewed at autopsy, looking at the inner surface of arteries, without magnification. It is not visible by current technologies in living humans, even by IVUS, the imaging technology with the highest spatial resolution for visualizing artery walls in vivo.
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