HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Silvia Martin Bote and collaborators from the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Infanta Leonor University Hospital, Madrid, Spain have published the article: Case Report Alveolar Proteinosis in COVID-19: Clinical Case, in the Journal: Case Reports in Pulmonology of 22/Oct/2022
- what: This approach shows the alveoli to be occupied by acellular, amorphous, eosinophilic material (seen clearly with PAS staining), and foamy alveolar macrophages .
SUMMARY
Findings are not pathognomonic and are observed in other diseases such as viral pneumonia (influenza A and B, adenovirus, and cytomegalovirus), interstitial pneumonia (organizing pneumonia . . .
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