Related Articles Review and Prospect of Pathological Features of Corona Virus Disease Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi 2020 Feb 25 36 1 16 20 Authors Wang HJ Du SH Yue X Chen CX Abstract Abstract Since 2003 coronavirus has caused multiple major public health events that resulted in global epidemics such as severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS and corona virus disease 2019 COVID 19 Especially since COVID 19 has outbroken in Wuhan Hubei in December 2019 coronavirus has had a significant impact on people s health and lives But so far the pathological diagnosis of COVID 19 has been relatively deficient it is still confined to the pathological findings of punctured organs and the majority of medical workers have poor awareness of its pathological characteristics The COVID 19 as same as SARS and MERS is caused by coronaviruses and can cause viral pneumonia They have certain similarities This article comprehensively reviews the pathological features observed in the autopsies of the aforementioned three diseases in order to provide reference to the analysis of pathological changes of COVID 19 PMID 32198986 PubMed as supplied by publisher