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. 2020 Jun 23;323(24):2518-2520.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.8907.

Postmortem Examination of Patients With COVID-19

Tina Schaller  1 , Klaus Hirschbühl  2 , Katrin Burkhardt  3 , Georg Braun  4 , Martin Trepel  2 , Bruno Märkl  1 , Rainer Claus  2
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Postmortem Examination of Patients With COVID-19

Tina Schaller et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This case series describes autopsy findings in 10 patients with proven severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection who died at a university medical center in Germany.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.. Macroscopic and Microscopic Findings in the Lung
Macroscopic (A and B) and histologic (C) images of organizing and end-stage diffuse alveolar damage (hematoxylin-eosin staining) with hyaline membranes (D, arrowheads, ×100), multinucleated giant cells (E, arrowheads, ×400), and squamous/osseous metaplasia (F and G, arrowheads, ×200) in a patient with a fatal course of coronavirus disease 2019.
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