Abstract

A case is described in which tracheopathia osteoplastica was found at autopsy in a patient in whom progressive pulmonary thromboembolic disease was diagnosed before death. The pathological appearances favoured the development of tracheopthia osteoplastica by metaplasia of multipotential connective tissue cells, and were not in keeping with other theories. The abnormalities of pulmonary function did not include evidence of airways obstruction but did conform to the pattern recognized in thromboembolism.

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