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Chest CT manifestations of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a pictorial review

Authors: Zheng Ye, Yun Zhang, Yi Wang, Zixiang Huang, Bin Song

Published in: European Radiology | Issue 8/2020

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, first reported in Wuhan, China, has rapidly swept around the world just within a month, causing global public health emergency. In diagnosis, chest computed tomography (CT) manifestations can supplement parts of limitations of real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay. Based on a comprehensive literature review and the experience in the frontline, we aim to review the typical and relatively atypical CT manifestations with representative COVID-19 cases at our hospital, and hope to strengthen the recognition of these features with radiologists and help them make a quick and accurate diagnosis.

Key Points

• Ground glass opacities, consolidation, reticular pattern, and crazy paving pattern are typical CT manifestations of COVID-19.

• Emerging atypical CT manifestations, including airway changes, pleural changes, fibrosis, nodules, etc., were demonstrated in COVID-19 patients.

• CT manifestations may associate with the progression and prognosis of COVID-19.

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Title: Chest CT manifestations of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a pictorial review
Authors: Zheng Ye
Yun Zhang
Yi Wang
Zixiang Huang
Bin Song
Publication date: 01-08-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Coronavirus
Computed Tomography
Computed Tomography
Pneumonia
COVID-19
Published in: European Radiology / Issue 8/2020
Print ISSN: 0938-7994
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1084
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06801-0

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