Pulmonary Anthracosis Flashcards
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Pneumoconiosis
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Lung disease caused by the inhalation and retention of anorganic dust: anthracosis, asbestosis and silicosis
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Anthracosis
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Common incidental finding in city-dwelling animals, or those cohabiting with cigarrete smokers, in which carbon particles accumulate within macrophages
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Etiopathogenesis
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Inhalation of carbon particles-lungs- elimination/phagocytosis by macroph-interstitium-regional limph nodes-pulmonary fibrosis
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Macro
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Subpleural black spots
When fibrosis occurs, lung dont collapse, increase in size, grayish color, dense-elastic consistency
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Micro
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Black small particles conglomerates
Macrophages with carbon particles alveolar septa is thick
Enfisema
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Evolution
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Usually without pathologic significance
Pulmonary fibrosis
