COVID-19: FIRST RESULTS OF RADIOLOGY IN RESPONSE TO A NEW CHALLENGE

Autor: S.K. Ternovoy, K.A. Belyaeva, N.S. Serova, A.S. Belyaev
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Russian Electronic Journal of Radiology. 10:8-15
ISSN: 2222-7415
Popis: OVID-19 or Coronavirus disease-19 is an acute infectious disease caused by the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2). First identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019, COVID-19 has spread widely beyond China. High contagiousness of the disease, severe clinical course and increased risk of complications leading to death - all this defines COVID-19 as the most urgent problem of the world medical community. Special attention should be paid not only to the clinical, laboratory, but also to the radiological diagnosis of manifestations of pulmonary pathology in COVID-19. This scientific review is aimed at highlighting the most important criteria for x-ray and CT diagnostics of pathological lung changes in patients with COVID-19 according to Russian and foreign au-thors.
Databáze: OpenAIRE