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Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
Dispatch

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

Takuya Adachi, Ja-Mun Chong, Noriko Nakajima, Masahiro Sano, Jun Yamazaki, Ippei Miyamoto, Haruka Nishioka, Hidetaka Akita, Yuko Sato, Michiyo Kataoka, Harutaka Katano, Minoru Tobiume, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Kentaro Itokawa, Makoto Kuroda, and Tadaki SuzukiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Toshima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (T. Adachi, J.-M. Chong, M. Sano, J. Yamazaki, I. Miyamoto, H. Nishioka, H. Akita); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (N. Nakajima, Y. Sato, M. Kataoka, H. Katano, M. Tobiume, T. Sekizuka, K. Itokawa, M. Kuroda, T. Suzuki)

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Figure 1

Chest radiograph and computed tomography results from an 84-year-old woman who died from coronavirus disease, Toshima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, February 2020. A) Chest radiographs taken on admission (illness day 8), showing reticular shadows, mainly in bilateral lower lung fields. B, C) Chest computed tomography scan taken on illness day 8, indicating ground-glass opacities mainly located in posterior segments of the bilateral lower lobes, where the highest numbers of viral RNA copies were found o

Figure 1. Chest radiograph and computed tomography results from an 84-year-old woman who died from coronavirus disease, Toshima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, February 2020. A) Chest radiographs taken on admission (illness day 8), showing reticular shadows, mainly in bilateral lower lung fields. B, C) Chest computed tomography scan taken on illness day 8, indicating ground-glass opacities mainly located in posterior segments of the bilateral lower lobes, where the highest numbers of viral RNA copies were found on autopsy. D) Chest radiographs taken on illness day 14, with shadows spreading to almost entire lungs and exhibiting air bronchograms.

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