Autopsy findings in eight patients with fatal H1N1 influenza

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-35

  Harms, Paul W ^a   Schmidt, Lindsay A ^a   Smith, Lauren B ^a   Newton, Duane W ^a   Pletneva, Maria A ^a   Walters, Laura L ^a   Tomlins, Scott A ^a   Fisher Hubbard, Amanda ^a   Napolitano, Lena M ^a   Park, Pauline K ^a   Blaivas, Mila ^a   Fantone, Joseph ^a   Myers, Jeffrey L ^a   Jentzen, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG GRANULOMA; MALE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULAR OBSTRUCTIVE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; DNA, VIRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LUNG; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954479028     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP35KOZSAVNQZW     Document Type: Article

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