Purpose First, to investigate the added diagnostic value of chest computed tomography (CT) for evaluating COVID‐19 in symptomatic children by comparing chest CT findings with chest radiographic findings, and second, to identify the imaging signs and patterns on CT associated with COVID‐19 pneumonia in children. Materials and Methods From March 2020 to December 2020, 56 consecutive children (33 males and 23 girls; mean age ± SD , 14.8 ± 5.0 years; range, 9 months–18 years) with mild to moderate symptom and laboratory confirmed COVID‐19 (based on Centers for Disease Control criteria) underwent both chest radiography and chest CT on the same day within the first 2 days of initial presentation to the hospital. Two experienced radiologists independently evaluated chest radiographs and chest CT studies for thoracic abnormalities. The findings from chest radiography and chest CT were compared to evaluate the added diagnostic value of chest CT for affecting patient management. Interobserver agreement was measured with Cohen's κ statistics. Results Eleven (19.6%) of 56 patients had abnormal chest radiographic findings, including ground‐glass opacity (GGO) in 5/11 (45.4%) and combined GGO and consolidation in 6/11 (54.5%). On chest CT, 26 (46.4%) of 56 patients had abnormal CT findings, including combined GGO and consolidation in 19/26 (73.1%), GGO in 6/26 (23.1%), and consolidation in 1/26 (3.8%). Chest CT detected all thoracic abnormalities seen on chest radiography in 11/26 (42.3%) cases. In 15/26 (57.7%), chest CT detected lung abnormalities that were not observed on chest radiography, which included GGO and consolidation in 9/15 (60%), GGO in 5/15 (33.3%), and consolidation in 1/15 (6.6%) cases. These additional CT findings did not affect patient management. In addition, chest CT detected radiological signs and patterns, including the halo sign, reversed halo sign, crazy paving pattern, and tree‐in‐bud pattern. There was almost perfect interobserver agreement between the two reviewers for detecting findings on both chest radiographs ( κ , 0.89, p = .001) and chest CT ( κ , 0.96, p = .001) studies. Conclusion Chest CT detected lung abnormalities, including GGO and/or consolidation, that were not observed on chest radiography in more than half of symptomatic pediatric patients with COVID‐19 pneumonia. However, these additional CT findings did not affect patient management. Therefore, CT is not clinically indicated for the initial evaluation of mild to moderately symptomatic pediatric patients with COVID‐19 pneumonia.

These are the advance abstracts of the third clinical congress of the Gulf Chapter of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists to be held on 29-31 of October 2015. The educational objective of the congress is to give a “state of the art in endocrine practice”. International and regional key opinion leaders were invited to address topical issues relating to the practice of diabetes care and clinical endocrinology. We present the abstracts of the congress as submitted by the authors after minimal restyling and editing to suit the publication requirements of the journal. Several major issues and topical themes with wide interests in the profession were addressed in 9 plenary lectures. Six clinical practice symposia were developed to target the specific educational needs of the target audience subgroups. In addition to, 16 practical issues will addressed in “Meet the Expert”- type of interactive workshops. Free communications from abstracts submitted by delegates, reflecting mostly the regional epidemiology and clinical practice in diabetes care and endocrinology, were selected for presentations as either oral (10) or poster presentations (30). By publishing the proceedings of our third annual congress in this open access journal, we hope to extend the benefit to those who could not make it to the live presentations and give a safe home for all the abstracts for future reference. Making them permanently available may facilitate regional and international networking and collaboration between clinicians and academics of shared interests.