The Pathology of Emphysema

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For satisfactory post mortem study of emphysema the lungs should be expanded to a size approximating that present during life. This is best done by formalin either in solution or as a fume. The study is greatly enhanced if whole lung sections mounted on paper by the Gough and Wentworth technique, or impregnated with barium sulphate, by Heard's technique, is used. Two fundamentally different anatomical forms of emphysema are seen, centrilobular, a destructive lesion affecting primarily the respiratory bronchioles and panacinar (panlobular) in which all varieties of air spaces in the lobule expand. One form of the panacinar type consists of simple dilatation while the other is destructive. Focal dust emphysema is a specific variety seen most frequently in coal workers. It is also centrilobular in position and commences with dilatation of respiratory bronchioles but later may lead to destruction of the walls of the air spaces. A minor form of this disease occurs in the general population in the form of soot emphy- sema from polluted atmospheres.

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关键词：

Bronchopneumonia

DOI：

10.1164/arrd.1959.80.1P2.58

被引量：

127

年份：

1967