In vivo imaging of the airway wall in asthma: fibered confocal fluorescence microscopy in relation to histology and lung function

Table 2 Elastic fibre pattern grading: Paired comparison histology and FCFM

Subject	Study group	Histology	FCFM
1	Asthma	Wispy	Wispy
2	Asthma	Wispy	Wispy
3	Asthma	Mixed	Lamellar
4	Asthma	Mixed	Mixed
5	Asthma	Lamellar	Lamellar
6	Asthma	Lamellar	Mixed
7	Asthma	Lamellar	Lamellar
8	Healthy, atopic	Mixed	Mixed
9	Healthy, atopic	Mixed	Lamellar
10	Healthy, atopic	Lamellar	Lamellar
11	Healthy, atopic	Lamellar	Lamellar
12	Healthy, non-atopic	Wispy	Wispy
13	Healthy, non-atopic	Mixed	Mixed
14	Healthy, non-atopic	Lamellar	Lamellar

Subjects with discrepancy between pattern scores by histology and FCFM in Italic.

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