Lung (top section)

Homo sapiens

Microscope slide: Lung (top section)

Frozen section of lung. The parenchyma forms an open, lace-like network of thin alveolar septa around widely patent airspaces — well-aerated peripheral lung at its most delicate. Denser, darker bands of collapsed alveoli follow the subpleural margin along the left of the section, and a small focus of septal congestion stains red at the lower left. The section has folded on itself in places during cryosectioning, producing the darker creases that cross the tissue; between folds the fine alveolar architecture, septal capillaries, and scattered alveolar macrophages can be followed at high power.

Category
Histology and Tissue
Magnification
20x
Stain
H&E
Tags
normal lung tissue, alveoli, alveolar septa, pneumocytes, alveolar capillaries, subpleural atelectasis, septal congestion, alveolar macrophages, respiratory system, frozen section, section folds, tumor-adjacent normal tissue, H&E, Homo sapiens, TCGA-LUSC, TCGA-18-3414

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