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Alveolar macrophages from bronchoalveolar lavage of patients with pulmonary histiocytosis X: determination of phenotypic and functional changes.
Lung - 1 Jan 1995
Uebelhoer M, Bewig B, Sternberg K, Rabe K, Nowak D, Magnussen H, Barth J
Abstract excerpt
In recent years the alveolar macrophage has been found to play a central role in interstitial lung disease. Pulmonary histiocytosis X is characterized by infiltrating fibroblasts, mononuclear cells, and CD-1-positive Langerhans cells. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid displays an increase of CD-1-positive cells and a remarkable exaggeration of the total cell count with only slight changes in the differential...
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