A Call to Action: The Need for Autopsies to Determine the Full Extent of Organ Involvement Associated With COVID-19

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Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 43-44

  Barth, Rolf F ^b   Xu, Xinyang ^a   Buja, L Maximilian ^c  

^a KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AUTOPSY; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; STEATOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; BETACORONAVIRUS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANS AT RISK; PANDEMIC; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

AUTOPSY; BETACORONAVIRUS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANS AT RISK; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 85084373963     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.03.060     Document Type: Editorial

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