The Heart of Frederic Chopin ( )

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The Heart of Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Philippe Charlier, MD, PhD, LittD, Antonio Perciaccante, MD, Marc Herbin, PhD, Otto Appenzeller, MD, PhD, Raffaella Bianucci, PhD The American Journal of Medicine Volume 131, Issue 4, Pages e173-e174 (April 2018) DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.12.005 Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

Figure Comparable deposits and globular precipitations (A) and postmortem fibrinous deposits (B) similar to the ones described in the alcoholic solution containing Chopin's heart are observable in an alcohol-fixed anatomical preparation of a human tissue from the Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire Collection (<1850, #A8438, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France). The American Journal of Medicine 2018 131, e173-e174DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.12.005) Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions