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(Chest. 1972;61:357-360.)
© 1972 American College of Chest Physicians

Pure Collagen Plaques on the Diaphragm and Pleura

Gross, Histologic and Electron Microscopic Observations

William C. Roberts M.D.1 and Victor J. Ferrans M.D.1

1 Section of Pathology, National Heart and Lung Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Clinical and morphologic observations are described of diaphragmatic and pleural plaques in six patients. The plaques were found by histologic (six patients) and ultrastructural examination (two patients) to consist of pure collagen. Although the exact cause of the plaques is unknown, the frequent finding by other investigators of asbestos bodies in the lungs of patients with these plaques suggests that the two are etiologically related.






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