id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-291374-1bpcj9dw Pernazza, Angelina Early histologic findings of pulmonary SARS-CoV-2 infection detected in a surgical specimen 2020-04-30 .txt text/plain 1652 83 41 Here we describe the pathologic features of early lung involvement by Covid-19 in a surgical sample resected for carcinoma from a patient who developed SARS-CoV-2 infection soon after surgery. The main histologic findings observed were pneumocyte damage, alveolar hemorrhages with clustering of macrophages, prominent and diffuse neutrophilic margination within septal vessels, and interstitial inflammatory infiltrates, mainly represented by CD8+ T lymphocytes. Here we describe the histologic features of early lung involvement by Covid-19 in a surgical sample resected for carcinoma from a patient who later developed SARS-CoV-2 infection. A recent autopsy report highlights the finding of diffuse alveolar damage as the major lung feature also in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection [4] . Pulmonary pathology of early-phase 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia in two patients with lung cancer Lung pathology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): a study of 8 autopsy cases from Singapore ./cache/cord-291374-1bpcj9dw.txt ./txt/cord-291374-1bpcj9dw.txt