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Lung-nontumor

Histologic findings of no clinical significance

Reviewers: Elliot Weisenberg, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 24 August 2011, last major update August 2011
Copyright: (c) 2003-2011, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.

Definition
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● Apical caps: zones of fibrosis with chronic inflammatory infiltrate in lung apices
● Ectopic tissue: skeletal muscle, pancreas, adrenal cortex and neuroglia
● Intrapulmonary lymph nodes
● Metaplastic bone: age related finding in bronchial cartilage, associated with bone marrow elements and rarely associated with alveolar exudate

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