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Explain of Pulmonary Pathology

99.Lung, silicosis, polarized light microscopic

By polarized light microscopy can be seen the etiology for most pneumoconioses (even those in coal miners)--silica crystals. Here are seen bright white crystals of varying sizes. The silica induces a fibrogenic response by macrophages to produce the nodular foci of collagen deposition.

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