It's just that I do not find many incidences of "incrustation" on UK websites, unless in inverted commas.

Anyway, this is a possible alternative.

The History of Cardiology - Google Books Result
by Louis J. Acierno - 1994 - Medical
Following Bellini's footsteps he referred to the atheromatous lesions as ‘incrustations' rather than ossifications. He was of the belief that they were ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1850703396.


.. 2000;102;94-102 Circulation Valentin Fuster and Antonio M. Gotto ...
explain the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis: the “incrustation” ... lesions (advanced lesions, atheromatous or fibrolipid plaques) ...
circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/102/suppl_4/IV-94.pdf - Similar pages


Excessive mural calcium overload--a predominant causal factor in ...
The most dramatic calcium incrustation was found in coronary stage III plaques that had produced massive fatal coronary infarction. ...
www.ionchannels.org/showabstract.php?pmid=2076386 - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

Risk Reduction -- Fuster and Gotto 102 (Supplement 4): IV-94 ...
The incrustation hypothesis of von Rokitansky,23 proposed in 1852 and ... atheromatous or fibrolipid plaques) with confluent extracellular lipid pools ...
www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/102/suppl_4/IV-94 - Similar pages


Biology of Arterial Atheroma
Definite atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid arteries usually do not .... with coronary heart disease and subsequent myocardial infarction vessel ...
content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowFulltext&ArtikelNr=000047599&Ausgabe=227507... - Similar pages


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atherosclerotic lesions