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Calcified mitochondria in epithelial cells of the respiratory tract in upper respiratory thermal injury
Author(s) -
Drut Ricardo
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
diagnostic cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1097-0339
pISSN - 8755-1039
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199810)19:4<288::aid-dc12>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - medicine , respiratory tract , respiratory system , mitochondrion , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , anatomy , biology
Multiple hematoxyphilic small granules were found in the respiratory columnar cells in smears from bronchial washings in a symptomatic boy who had suffered from extensive burns in his face and was suspected to had developed thermal injury of the upper respiratory tract. These granules proved to be immunoreactive for mitochondria antigen antibodies and to contain calcium salts after the von Kossa stain. Calcified mitochondria may represent a peculiar phenotype of thermal injury to the bronchial lining cells. Diagn. Cytopathol. 1998;19:288–289. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.