1. Pathophysiology of severe asthma
William W. Busse, MDa, Susan Banks-Schlegel, PhDb, Sally E. Wenzel, MDc 
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 
Volume 106, Issue 6, Pages (December 2000)
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2. Fig. 1
Examples of small airway tissue (hematoxylin-eosin staining) from patients with severe asthma and normal control subjects. A, Open lung biopsy specimen of a living patient with severe asthma demonstrates markedly folded bronchial epithelia and mucosa, thickened airway wall, and epithelial cell aggregate in the airway lumen. B, Autopsy specimen from a patient with fatal severe asthma demonstrating goblet cell hyperplasia and eosinophilic inflammation. The airway lumen is occupied with a mucus plug. C, A normal small airway from a normal subject’s postmortem lung (original magnification, 100×).
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