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Volume 10, Number 3—March 2004
Dispatch

Patient Data, Early SARS Epidemic, Taiwan

Po-Ren Hsueh*, Pei-Jer Chen*, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao*, Shiou-Huei Yeh†, Wen-Chen Cheng*, Jiun-Ling Wang*, Bor-Luen Chiang*, Shan-Chwen Chang*, Feng-Yee Chang‡, Wing-Wai Wong§, Chuan-Liang Kao*1, Pan-Chyr Yang*1Comments to Author , and the SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital
Author affiliations: *National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; †National Health Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan; ‡Tri-service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and; §Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan

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Figure 3

Histopathologic findings of lung biopsy (patient 1) and bone marrow biopsy (patient 2) in two patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome. A: diffuse interstitial pneumonitis with mononuclear cell infiltrating in the mildly thickened alveolar septum (hematoxylin and eosin stain, X100). B: desquamated, multinucleated syncytial giant cell without cytoplasmic inclusion (hematoxylin and eosin stain, X400). C: abundant CD68-positive histiocytes (X100). D: a macrophage ingested with erythrocytes,

Figure 3. Histopathologic findings of lung biopsy (patient 1) and bone marrow biopsy (patient 2) in two patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome. A: diffuse interstitial pneumonitis with mononuclear cell infiltrating in the mildly thickened alveolar septum (hematoxylin and eosin stain, X100). B: desquamated, multinucleated syncytial giant cell without cytoplasmic inclusion (hematoxylin and eosin stain, X400). C: abundant CD68-positive histiocytes (X100). D: a macrophage ingested with erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets (Liu’s stain, X1,000).

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1Pan-Chyr Yang and Chuan-Liang Kao contributed equally to this article.

2The SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital includes the following members: Ding-Shinn Chen, Yuan-Teh Lee, Che-Ming Teng, Pan-Chyr Yang, Hong-Nerng Ho, Pei-Jer Chen, Ming-Fu Chang, Jin-Town Wang, Shan-Chwen Chang, Chuan-Liang Kao, Wei-Kung Wang, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao, and Po-Ren Hsueh.

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