IPLab:Lab 13:Cystic Fibrosis
Images
This is a gross photograph of liver and pancreas from the autopsy. The pancreas is slightly smaller than normal and it has a mucous consistency.
This section of duodenum demonstrates dilation, loss of rugae, and areas of ulceration (arrows).
This low-power photomicrograph of pancreas shows increased interstitial connective tissue resulting in accentuation of the lobular pattern.
This higher-power photomicrograph of the pancreas shows interstitial tissue and the presence of small cystic spaces (1) within the acinar lobules. These spaces are filled with an eosinophilic proteinaceous material. The islets of Langerhans (2) are unaffected.
This higher-power photomicrograph shows a cystic space (1) within an acinar lobule. Islets of Langerhans (2) are also visible.
This high-power photomicrograph shows more clearly these variably-sized cystic spaces within the acinar pancreas.
This is another high-power photomicrograph showing cystic spaces (1) within the acinar pancreas and a normal islet of Langerhans (2).
This low-power photomicrograph of intestine shows the normal layers of the intestine, including the serosa (1), the muscularis (2), the submucosa (3), and the mucosal layer (4) with its deep mucosal crypts. There is yet another cystic space within the mucosa (5).
A higher-power photomicrograph shows the bottom of the intestinal crypts and the other normal layers of the intestine. Even at this magnification, accumulations of eosinophilic debris can be seen in many of the intestinal crypts (arrows).
This is a higher-power photomicrograph showing the eosinophilic debris in many of the intestinal crypts (arrows).
This higher-power photomicrograph shows more clearly the eosinophilic debris (arrows) in the intestinal crypts.
This is a low-power photomicrograph from another section of the intestine. Saggital sections of the intestinal crypts show the crypts along their full length, extending to the mucosal surface.
A higher-power photomicrograph of intestine shows the vacuolated intestinal epithelial cells lining the crypts and necrotic debris and inspissated secretions within the crypts (arrows).
Another high-power photomicrograph of intestine shows the vacuolated intestinal epithelial cells lining the crypts and necrotic debris and inspissated secretions within the crypts (arrows).
