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IN recent papers Büchner1 and his disciples Pichotka2, Müller and Rotter3, as well as Hesse4, have described peculiar histological findings in livers of airmen who died under the effect of atmospheric conditions at a high altitude. The pictures under consideration consist in the formation of big, round or polyhedric vacuoles in liver cells nearest the acinus centres; these vacuoles do not contain either fat or glycogen; they appear as optically empty spaces, including here and there a crescent-like hem of slightly acidophil, homogeneous material, probably serous liquid.
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LADEWIG, P. Anoxæmic Changes in the Liver, with regard to the 'High-Altitude Death' of Airmen. Nature 151, 558 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151558a0
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