[Changes in the human epiphysis in fibrocavernous tuberculosis of the lungs]

Histologically detected lesions of the epiphysis in patients who died of fibrocavernous tuberculosis of the lung are described. The lesions were of nonspecific nature and appeared as pinealocyte dystrophy, decreased secretory parenchyma and developed replacement gliosis and were accompanied by pronounced calcification. Quantitative mathematical techniques such as stereometry or informative entropy indicated the adaptive nature of the described lesions in the epiphysis and its role in pathogenesis of the clinicomorphological type of tuberculosis.