A 74-year-old man with alcoholism recently recovered from a pulmonary infection in which he was treated with clindamycin. Chest x-ray today shows a region of annular scarring in the right lower lobe. Vitals are: temperature 98.6F, HR 60, RR 12, BP 117/75. Damage to which of the following has most likely precluded restoration of this patient’s normal pulmonary tissue architecture?
Basement membranes
Capillary endothelial cells
Clara cells
Clara cells
Type I pneumocytes
Type II pneumocytes
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