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From: A fatal case of acute encephalopathy in a child due to coxsackievirus A2 infection: a case report

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Pathological findings in the brain (a, b) and upper respiratory tract (c). a Inferior view of the brain. No macroscopic abnormalities were observed. b Hematoxylin and eosin staining of the brain. Some perivascular extravasation of serum proteins and dilatation of Virchow Robin spaces are found without inflammatory cell infiltration. Original magnification x100. Scale bar = 200 μm. Microscopic images were taken with VS200 Slide Scanner (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) at 0.274 μm/pixel, and analyzed with Olyvia software (Olympus). The image was not edited. b Upper respiratory tract. Redness was observed on the palatine tonsils (arrow), lingual tonsils (*), and the entire tracheal and bronchial mucosa (arrowhead)

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