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Pathologic Anatomy and Clinical Differentiation from Primary Atypical Pneumonia

COMMANDER CLYDE R. JENSEN, U.S.N.R.

Arch Intern Med. 1946;77(3):237-253.

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CLINICAL recognition of pulmonary lesions in rheumatic fever is increasing. Many careful descriptions of the pathologic anatomy of rheumatic pneumonitis, obtained from cases in which death was due to rheumatic carditis, have finally brought into focus what seems to be a highly characteristic picture, gross and microscopic, now generally familiar to pathologists. Pathologic details may not be so familiar to most clinicians. It is not yet possible, however, to identify the disease solely on the basis of a single anatomic change in the lungs alone—to recognize any one feature as pathognomonic. This is due somewhat to the fact that rheumatic fever is always a disease of many organs, and when only a part of the picture is viewed either clinically or anatomically in one organ at a time it seems to blend with other conditions, usually regarded as separate diseases.

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Footnotes
Read at the meeting of North Pacific Society of Internal Medicine, Seattle, April 28, 1945.

This article has been released for publication by the Division of Publications of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the United States Navy. The opinions and views set forth in this article are those of the writer and are not to be construed as reflecting the policies of the Navy Department.

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