Ultrastructural Diagnosis in the Immotile Cilia Syndrome
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- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ultrastructural Pathology
- Vol. 11 (5-6) , 653-658
Abstract
This article reports on the experience with 38 biopsies from nasal mucosa, submitted with the question of immotile cilia syndrome. Fixation in glutaraldehyde with MgSO4 is preferable. At least 50 cilia should be scrutinized in the electron microscope, and dynein arms, radial spokes, sheaths, nexin links and orientation should be tabulated. Six cases displayed virtual absence of inner and outer dynein arms. The orientation of these cilia was random. Two of the patients had situs inversus. In biopsies considered not to represent the immotile cilia syndrome, about four inner and seven outer dynein arms were found per cilium.Keywords
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