The usual course of thorax CT findings of COVID-19 infection and when to perform control thorax CT scan
| Autor: | Gündüz Y; Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey, Öztürk MH; Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey, Tomak Y; Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Turkish journal of medical sciences [Turk J Med Sci] 2020 Jun 23; Vol. 50 (4), pp. 684-686. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 23. |
| DOI: | 10.3906/sag-2004-293 |
| Abstrakt: | COVID-19 infection, a highly contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV virus, and the World Health Organization declared this increasingly spreading disease as a global public health emergency (pandemic). In the diagnosis of COVID-19, the polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is considered as the reference standard test. In the early stages, thorax CT findings could be present even before the onset of symptoms, thorax CT has quite high sensitivity in COVID-19 patients with false negative RT-PCR results, and it has a great importance not only in diagnosis but also in follow up. We think that it might be beneficial for our radiologist colleagues in the early diagnosis of the imaging features of this disease, by sharing the experiences we have gained by evaluating the typical and relatively atypical CT findings regarding the natural course of the tomographic findings of COVID-19 and when to control CT. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest. (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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