id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-334833-7gv1c7we Ding, Yanqing The clinical pathology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): a report from China 2003-07-01 .txt text/plain 2615 138 48 The pulmonary lesions included bilateral extensive consolidation, localized haemorrhage and necrosis, desquamative pulmonary alveolitis and bronchitis, proliferation and desquamation of alveolar epithelial cells, exudation of protein and monocytes, lymphocytes and plasma cells in alveoli, hyaline membrane formation, and viral inclusion bodies in alveolar epithelial cells. Systemic vasculitis included oedema, localized fibrinoid necrosis, and infiltration of monocytes, lymphocytes, and plasma cells into vessel walls in the heart, lung, liver, kidney, adrenal gland, and the stroma of striated muscles. With regard to the aetiology and pathogenesis of SARS, this study has demonstrated extensive pulmonary consolidation; significant pulmonary oedema; localized haemorrhage and necrosis; widespread hyaline membrane formation; a local inflammatory reaction consisting mostly of monocytes, lymphocytes, and plasma cells; desquamation of bronchial and alveolar epithelial cells; numerous multinucleate and mononuclear giant cells in pulmonary alveoli in two cases; and typical viral inclusion bodies in epithelial cells in alveoli in all the three cases. ./cache/cord-334833-7gv1c7we.txt ./txt/cord-334833-7gv1c7we.txt