Balfour A J
Aviat Space Environ Med. 1982 Mar;53(3):269-72.
Pulmonary lesions resembling sarcoid granulomata histologically appeared as chance findings on routine histology of UK aircraft accident fatalities more often than was expected from the recognised clinical incidence of sarcoidosis in UK. It was not possible to prove that these lesions in postmortem tissue were sarcoidosis, but all attempts to demonstrate any other aetiology failed. This raised the question as to whether there might be an association between these lesions and aircraft accidents, or whether some factor led to their occurrence in aircrew more frequently than in passengers. However, the clinical incidence and the postmortem occurrence are not strictly comparable, and the numbers involved are small and so the findings may be due to chance.
在英国飞机事故遇难者的常规组织学检查中，组织学上类似结节病肉芽肿的肺部病变作为偶然发现出现的频率高于英国结节病公认临床发病率所预期的情况。无法证实这些死后组织中的病变就是结节病，但所有试图证明任何其他病因的尝试均告失败。这就引发了一个问题，即这些病变与飞机事故之间是否可能存在关联，或者是否存在某种因素导致其在机组人员中比在乘客中更频繁地出现。然而，临床发病率和死后发生率并非严格可比，且所涉及的病例数量较少，因此这些发现可能是偶然所致。
