Severe acute respiratory syndrome and its lesions in digestive system
Open Access
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. in World Journal of Gastroenterology
- Vol. 9 (6) , 1135-1138
- https://doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v9.i6.1135
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an infectious atypical pneumonia that has recently been recognized in the patients in 32 countries and regions. This brief review summarizes some of the initial etiologic findings, pathological description, and its lesions of digestive system caused by SARS virus. It is an attempt to draw gastroenterologists and hepatologists' attention to this fatal illness, especially when it manifests itself initially as digestive symptoms.Keywords
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