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Letter to Editor - Keratinous Micro Cysts in Viral Interstitial Pneumonitis Vaideeswar P Abstract Epithelial metaplasia is a well recognized phenomenon occurring in the healing phase of interstitial pneumonitis, viral or otherwise.(1) Squamous metaplasia that occurs is usually assumed to be of the non-keratinising type, as is always depicted in the standard textbooks. We came across a case at autopsy where the lungs were studded with multiple foci of keratinising squamous metaplasia, largely of the alveolar lining...

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