title: Ultrastructural aspects of the alveolar wall in SIDS.
abstract: The aim of this study is to make a comparative analyse between light and ultrastructural lesions of the alveolar wall in SIDS. The study was made on lung specimens collected from autopsy of infants with sudden unexplained death. There were studied histopathologically 10 cases of sudden death. Only in 3 cases were made electron microscopically studies. At light microscope, there were put in evidence interstitial and intra-alveolar oedema and the presence of many parietal and intra-alveolar macrophages. There is a good correlation between light and ultrastructural aspects.
authors.affiliation: Disciplina Morfopatologie, Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Butcovan
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mihăilă
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cotrutz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ionescu
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Petreuş
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Mihailovici
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D016676:Macrophages, Alveolar / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000473:pathology*