Abstract

Portions of two adjacent normal human alveoli were reconstructed from serial sections in order to examine normal alveolar organization, including anatomical relationships among the different cell types, the connective tissue matrix and gaps in the alveolar septum. Computer reconstructions were prepared from montaged electron micrographs of serial sections. Rotation of these reconstructions in the x, y or z axes allowed examination of the alveoli from many different aspects other than the actual plane of sectioning. Anatomical relationships “between Type I and Type II epithelial cells, alveolar macrophages, and pores of Kohn that could not he deduced from a single plane of the section (random sections) were revealed.

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