title: Severe acute respiratory syndrome and its lesions in digestive system.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, 306 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100101, China. zhangjz55@sina.com
authors.forename: Jian-Zhong
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D004064:Digestive System / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*