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Fig. 2 | BMC Cancer

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From: An improved method of delivering a sclerosing agent for the treatment of malignant pleural effusion

Fig. 2

Histology of pleura and lung parenchyma of mice that received intrapleural injection of saline (S), foam (F), talc foam (TF) or talc slurry (TS). a. Representative images of hematoxylin-eosin and trichrome stained tissue samples. Trichrome stains fibrotic tissue component and appears in blue color. Large image: magnification 4x, scale bar, 300 μm; inset: 20x, scale bar: 30 μm. b. Quantification of fibrotic lung and pleural tissue for each treatment group. *, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01. Number of animals per group = 3 for F and NS, 8 for TS and 11 for TF

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