Table 4.

Pathological and microbiological findings in patients with neoplasm who died with H1N1 infection

Patient/age	Gender	Neoplasm	Metastasis	Lung pathology	Bronchopneumonia	Bacterial culture	Lung PCR for bacteria	Extrapulmonary findings
01/58 years	F	Myelofibrosis	Absent	DAD and alveolar hemorrhage	Present	Streptococcus pneumoniae	Positive	Acute tubular necrosis, bone marrow fibrosis, liver hemosiderosis, white pulp depletion in spleen
02/56 years	F	Rectal melanoma	Pleura, lung, liver, heart, lymph nodes, adrenal glands	Exudative DAD	Present	S. pneumoniae	Positive	Acute tubular necrosis, liver necrosis, white pulp depletion in spleen
03/56 years	F	Breast carcinoma	Brain, lung, lymph nodes, diaphragm	Exudative DAD	Absent	Negative	Negative	Acute tubular necrosis, brain necrosis, hypocellular bone marrow, white pulp depletion in spleen
04/60 years	M	Esophagus cancer	Neck lymph nodes	No virus-related pulmonary changes	Present	S. pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Negative	Acute tubular necrosis, white pulp depletion in spleen, hypocellular bone marrow, lung thromboembolism
05/55 years	M	Esophagus cancer	Liver, kidney, thoracic lymph nodes	DAD and necrotizing bronchiolitis	Present	S. pneumoniae	Negative	Liver necrosis, hypocellular bone marrow, white pulp depletion in spleen lung thromboembolism

F, female; M, male; DAD, diffuse alveolar damage.