Clinicopathologic and Immunohistochemical Findings from Autopsy of Patient with COVID-19, Japan.

ABSTRACT: An autopsy of a patient in Japan with coronavirus disease indicated pneumonia lung pathology, manifested as diffuse alveolar damage. We detected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 antigen in alveolar epithelial cells and macrophages. Coronavirus disease is essentially a lower respiratory tract disease characterized by direct viral injury of alveolar epithelial cells.

SUBMITTER: Adachi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7454070 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature