What is this?

A friend from the “INER” National Institute for respiratory diseases, show me this image. It was taken after a extraction from bronchoscopy in a man with atelectasis of the lung.

Regards,

Gerardo Morales, M.D.

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4 Responses to What is this?

  1. The patient has pulmonary cancer and bleed into the airway forming this clot with the shape of the bronchi causing a obstructive atelectasis.

    Thank you for your comments.

    Gerardo Morales, M.D.

  2. Suz says:

    Embolised bronchioles??

  3. It is a piece of the bronchial tree (bronchioles i suspect).

    Regards,
    Jon Mikel, M.D.

  4. beajerry says:

    That, my friend, is a holy remnant of being touched by the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
    http://www.venganza.org

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