{"title":"[The specificity of so-called \"smoker cells\" in lung tissue].","authors":"H Eckert, C Engelmann, U Unger","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A simple test for demonstration of smoker cells was verified on bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and cytological smears of lung tissue. Alveolar macrophages exhibit in 81% (BAL) respectively 86% (surgical material) of the smokers with Fettrot 7B a red colouring of the cytoplasm. Only few non-smokers show a positive reaction for smoker cells. In ex-smokers this positive reaction disappears after 7 month. We conclude, that this method is very sensitive but not absolutely specific for detecting smokers with a simple cytological test.</p>","PeriodicalId":76840,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Erkrankungen der Atmungsorgane","volume":"174 3","pages":"174-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zeitschrift fur Erkrankungen der Atmungsorgane","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A simple test for demonstration of smoker cells was verified on bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and cytological smears of lung tissue. Alveolar macrophages exhibit in 81% (BAL) respectively 86% (surgical material) of the smokers with Fettrot 7B a red colouring of the cytoplasm. Only few non-smokers show a positive reaction for smoker cells. In ex-smokers this positive reaction disappears after 7 month. We conclude, that this method is very sensitive but not absolutely specific for detecting smokers with a simple cytological test.
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