Figure 3.

Contraction band necrosis. (A-B) Pancellular lesion with fragmentation of hypercontracted myofibrils and band formation of hypercontracted or coagulated sarcomeres (A H&E × 40, B H&E x 80). (C-D) Paradiscal lesion formed by about 15 hypercontracted sarcomeres without myofibrillar rhexis. Note the absence of edema, haemorrhage and myofibre vacuolisation (C H&E × 200, D H&E x 250).