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Atypical mast cell degranulation and focal hydropic degeneration of venular endothelium in diffuse fibrosing alveolitis

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Atypical scroll-like and tubular degranulation of mast cells closely associated with focal endothelial hydropic degeneration is reported in human lung from 4 patients with diffuse fibrosing alveolitis in which the predominant abnormality was hyperplasia and desquamation of type 2 pneumocytes.

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  1. Schools of Pathology and Medicine, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1, 2033, Kensington, N.S.W., Australia

    A. W. J. Lykke, M. E. Schonell & B. W. Stewart

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  1. A. W. J. Lykke
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This work was supported by a grant from the National health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

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Lykke, A.W.J., Schonell, M.E. & Stewart, B.W. Atypical mast cell degranulation and focal hydropic degeneration of venular endothelium in diffuse fibrosing alveolitis. Experientia 35, 1492–1493 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01962804

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