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From the Departments of Radiologic Pathology (M.L.R.) and Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology (M.V.F.), Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Bldg 54, Rm M-121, Alaska and Fern Sts, Washington, DC 20306-6000; the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md (M.L.R.); the Departments of Radiology (C.C.W.) and Surgery, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (M.J.K.), University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore; and the Department of Radiology, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (A.C.M.) Received December 6, 1995; revision requested January 15, 1996, and received February 9; accepted February 12. Address reprint requests to M.L.R.
Abbreviations: H-E = hematoxylin-eosin, MPM = malignant pleural mesothelioma, PA = posteroanterior, PAS = periodic acid-Schiff, VATS = video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Index terms: Asbestos ð Mesothelioma, 66.3254 ð Pleura, neoplasms, 66.3254
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