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A Form of Diffuse Interstitial Angiosis and Reticulosis of the Lungs

ALFRED GOLDEN, M.D.; THEODORE T. BRONK, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1953;92(5):606-614.

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DIFFUSE interstitial fibrosis of the lungs was the subject of editorial comment in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jan. 17, 1953.¹ This summarized the reports of the relatively small number of cases that have appeared in the medical literature since attention was called to this entity by Hamman and Rich.²

It is the purpose of this presentation to summarize the salient clinical features from the published reports and from our current experience with three cases and to present the pathological findings in our cases. We found the phase microscope³ and the McManus-Schiff reaction particularly useful in combination with observations made by means of the Masson trichrome stain, the Wilder reticulum method, and the Weigert elastic tissue stain as well as hematoxylin and eosin stained sections.

Pulmonary lesions in these cases were compared with those seen in acute interstitial pneumonia or primary atypical pneumonia; in pulmonary . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BUFFALO

From the Laboratory Service, Buffalo Veterans Administration Hospital (University of Buffalo School of Medicine).

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Pathology and Physiology at the 102nd Annual Session of the American Medical Association, New York, June 3, 1953.

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