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Failure of elastin development in hypoplastic lungs associated with oligohydramnios: an electronmicroscopic study
A Haidar1, T A Ryder, J S Wigglesworth
1Department of Histopathology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
Histopathology
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
Pulmonary hypoplasia associated with oligohydramnios results in delayed maturation of fetal lung as assessed at light microscope level. Using an elastin-specific electron-microscopic staining technique, we report absent elastic tissue development in the septal crests of these lungs even at term.