Surgical Therapy for Pneumoconiotic Tuberculosis

Surgical collapse therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Surgical Tuberculosis

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Identification of mineral particles in pneumoconiotic lungs.

An extraction replication technique has been used for the study, by electron microscopy, of lung tissue from a number of different cases of pneumoconiosis. The technique provides a relatively simple means of studying the surface area of replicated tissues, and any foreign particles present which are either replicated or extracted from the tissue can be identified. A set of standard micrographs ...

Presence of fibronectin in pneumoconiotic lesions.

During the last 10 years our investigations have confirmed that collagen is not the major protein material in the lesions of progressive massive fibrosis of coal workers. In previous studies it was demonstrated that a substance similar in composition to fibrin was an important component in these masses. We report immunohistochemical studies on the lungs of seven coalworkers which show that the ...

Surgical Therapy for Achalasia