Post-mortem inflation, radiography, and fixation of human lungs. A method for radiological and pathological correlations and morphometric studies.

摘要: A method is described for correlative radiological and pathological studies of the lung post mortem, including radiography after air inflation, fixation with formalin-polyethylene glycol-alcohol solution, drying systematic histological sampling tissue. For morphometric total capacity during life determined from radiograms compared volume excised fixation. The simple, relatively inexpensive, some experience gives good results both in histology. With this test lungs seemed to assume a fairly constant volume, little higher than functional residual capacity.