When pneumonia is not COVID-19.

Autor: Arenas-Jiménez JJ; Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España. Electronic address: j.arenasjimenez@gmail.com., Plasencia-Martínez JM; Área de Urgencias y de Imagen Cardiaca, Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Murcia, España., García-Garrigós E; Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de Alicante (ISABIAL), Alicante, España.
Jazyk: English; Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Radiologia [Radiologia (Engl Ed)] 2021 Mar-Apr; Vol. 63 (2), pp. 180-192. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Nov 28.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rx.2020.11.003
Abstrakt: During the COVID-19 epidemic, the prevalence of the disease means that practically any lung opacity on an X-ray could represent pneumonia due to infection with SARS-CoV-2. Nevertheless, atypical radiologic findings add weight to negative microbiological or serological tests. Likewise, outside the epidemic wave and with the return of other respiratory diseases, radiologists can play an important role in decision making about diagnoses, treatment, or preventive measures (isolation), provided they know the key findings for entities that can simulate COVID-19 pneumonia. Unifocal opacities or opacities located in upper lung fields and predominant airway involvement, in addition to other key radiologic and clinical findings detailed in this paper, make it necessary to widen the spectrum of possible diagnoses.
(Copyright © 2020 SERAM. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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