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01-09-2020 | Pneumonia | Letter to the Editor

CT and COVID-19: Chinese experience and recommendations concerning detection, staging and follow-up

Authors: Li Fan, ShiYuan Liu

Published in: European Radiology | Issue 9/2020

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The outbreak of COVID-19 that started late December 2019, has spread to 184 countries on March 21, 2020, with 267,013 confirmed cases and 11,201 deaths according to the WHO reports [1]. China has accumulated huge clinical experience and reported about epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and imaging features [2‐6]. The National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China has published the 7th trial version of diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 proposal [7]. …

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Title: CT and COVID-19: Chinese experience and recommendations concerning detection, staging and follow-up
Authors: Li Fan
ShiYuan Liu
Publication date: 01-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Pneumonia
COVID-19
Published in: European Radiology / Issue 9/2020
Print ISSN: 0938-7994
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1084
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06898-3

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