Clinical Characteristics and CT Manifestations of 143 Hospitalized Patients with 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outside Wuhan: A Multi-Center Study in Taizhou City, Zhejiang, China

Kuang, Yani; He, Susu; Lin, Shuangxiang; Zhu, Rui; Zhou, Ronghui; Wang, Jian; Ying, Shuying; Li, Renzhan; Lin, Haiyong; Zhang, Zhibang; Pang, Peipei; Ji, Wenbin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3556667

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…On reviewing previously published studies, the percentage of cases with progressive CT findings ranged from 32 to 94.75%. This wide range may be explained by the variability in study duration, number of cases, and time interval between initial and follow up CT studies [13,14,16,17,19,20,27].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

CT findings of 795 COVID-19 positive cases: a multicenter study in Egypt

Sabri

Fawzi

Nossair

et al. 2020

Egypt J Radiol Nucl Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was officially announced as a global pandemic by the WHO on March 11th 2020. Thorough understanding of CT imaging features of COVID-19 is essential for effective patient management; rationalizing the need for relevant research. The aim of this study was to analyze the chest CT findings of patients with real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) proved COVID-19 admitted to four Egyptian hospitals. The recently published RSNA expert consensus statement on reporting COVID-19 chest CT findings was taken into consideration. Results Normal CT “negative for COVID-19” was reported in 26.1% of our RT-PCR proved COVID-19 cases. In descending order of prevalence, imaging findings of the positive CT studies (73.9%) included GGO (69%), consolidation (49.7%), crazy paving (15.4%), and peri-lobular fibrosis (40.6%). These showed a dominantly bilateral (68.2%), peripheral (72.4%), and patchy (64.7%) distribution. Remarkably, thymic hyperplasia was identified in 14.3% of studies. According to the RSNA consensus, CT findings were classified as typical in 68.9%, indeterminate in 3.6%, and atypical in 1.4% of the evaluated CT studies. Conclusion Although COVID-19 cannot be entirely excluded by chest CT, it can be distinguished in more than two-thirds of cases; making CT a widely available, non-invasive, and rapid diagnostic tool.

show abstract