Abstract
Sixty-three consecutive autopsy cases of interstitial fibrosis of the lung, 6 cases of organizing pneumonia, 14 of pneumocystis pneumonia, and 20 of acute bacterial pneumonia complicating as a terminal illness listed in our Department of Pathology during a period from 1978 to 1983 were surveyed for Mallory body-like cytoplasmic hyalins in the alveolar cells. We found the hyalins in 10 of 63 cases (15.9%) with interstitial fibrosis of the lung and one of 6 cases with organizing pneumonia. Seven of the former 10 had an associated malignancy; 3 esophageal cancers, 2 lung cancers, and 2 leukemias. Five of the seven patients received an irradiation for treatment of their malignancies, subsequently developed interstitial fibrosis of the lung. Among the remaining 3 of the 10, one showed diffuse interstitial fibrosis associated with rheumatoid arthritis and two had an idiopathic type of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis. There was only one case in which the pulmonary hyalins were found in the absence of extensive interstitial fibrosis within small organizing foci of peribronchial and subpleural location. Pulmonary hyalins showed the same conventional staining properties and ultrastructural features as Mallory's alcoholic hyalins found in the ...Continue Reading
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