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(Created page with "'''Staining''': HE '''Organ''': Lung '''Description''': The otherwise normal parenchyme contain multiple foci. The alveoli inside these foci are filled with exudate and acute inflammatory cells, mostly neutrophils. '''Diagnosis''': Bronchopneumonia '''Theory''': Compare this slide to lobar pneumonia, slide number 25. In bronchopneumonia is the inflammation present in foci spread evenly throughout all lobes. The inflammation doesn’t diffusely affect the whole lun...")
 
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'''Staining''': HE
[[File:Bronchopneumonia - overview.png|thumb|Overview of the slide]]'''Staining''': HE


'''Organ''': Lung
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The alveoli contain purulent exudate (pus), which consists of neutrophils, necrotic cells and oedema fluid. This is therefore the purulent stage of pneumonia.
The alveoli contain purulent exudate (pus), which consists of neutrophils, necrotic cells and oedema fluid. This is therefore the purulent stage of pneumonia.
[[File:Bronchopneumonia - overview.png|center|thumb|Overview of the slide]]
[[File:Bronchopneumonia - one focus.png|thumb|Close-up of one focus. Seeing the alveolar structures can be hard when they’re filled with neutrophils. I’ve circled one of them.|left]]
[[File:Bronchopneumonia - one focus.png|center|thumb|Close-up of one focus. Seeing the alveolar structures can be hard when they’re filled with neutrophils. I’ve circled one of them.]]
[[File:Bronchopneumonia - close-up.png|thumb|Close-up of an alveolus inside a focus. The cells are mostly neutrophils.]]
[[File:Bronchopneumonia - close-up.png|center|thumb|Close-up of an alveolus inside a focus. The cells are mostly neutrophils.]]
[[Category:Pathology 1 - Histopathology slides]]
[[Category:Pathology 1 - Histopathology slides]]