National Institutes of Health

QUANTITATIVE MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULARPATHOLOGY OF THE HUMAN THYMUS CORRELATE WITHINFANT CAUSE OF DEATH

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to investigate and quantify the morphological and molecularchanges in the thymus for common causes of human infant death. Thymic architecture andmolecular changes apparent in human infant head trauma victims were assessed by microscopyand quantified by image analysis of digital whole slide images. Thymuses from victims of SIDSand suffocated…