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R37-1 Septic Bronchiopneumonia Associated with Fibrinous Pleurisy


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Description Septic Bronchiopneumonia Associated with Fibrinous Pleurisy
Author Department of Pathology
Copyright Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine

Specimen:

Sectioned left lung of a child.

 

Gross Pathology :

1. The cut surface of the lung shows multiple small suppurative foci, some showing the cross section of bronchi

3.  The lung tissue between the foci appear dark hyperemic.

4.  The covering pleura is dull, opaque and greyish due to fibrin deposition

 

Diagnosis:

1. Bronchopneumonia.

2. Fibrinous pleurisy.

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