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Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection
BACKGROUND: Infection with COVID-19 is currently rare in children. OBJECTIVE: To describe chest CT findings in children with COVID-19. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied children at a large tertiary-care hospital in China, during the period from 28 January 2019 to 8 February 2020, who had positive re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7080075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32162081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00247-020-04656-7 |
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author | Li, Wei Cui, Huaqian Li, Kunwei Fang, Yijie Li, Shaolin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Infection with COVID-19 is currently rare in children. OBJECTIVE: To describe chest CT findings in children with COVID-19. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied children at a large tertiary-care hospital in China, during the period from 28 January 2019 to 8 February 2020, who had positive reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for COVID-19. We recorded findings at any chest CT performed in the included children, along with core clinical observations. RESULTS: We included five children from 10 months to 6 years of age (mean 3.4 years). All had had at least one CT scan after admission. Three of these five had CT abnormality on the first CT scan (at 2 days, 4 days and 9 days, respectively, after onset of symptoms) in the form of patchy ground-glass opacities; all normalised during treatment. CONCLUSION: Compared to reports in adults, we found similar but more modest lung abnormalities at CT in our small paediatric cohort. |
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spelling | pubmed-70800752020-03-23 Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection Li, Wei Cui, Huaqian Li, Kunwei Fang, Yijie Li, Shaolin Pediatr Radiol Original Article BACKGROUND: Infection with COVID-19 is currently rare in children. OBJECTIVE: To describe chest CT findings in children with COVID-19. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied children at a large tertiary-care hospital in China, during the period from 28 January 2019 to 8 February 2020, who had positive reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for COVID-19. We recorded findings at any chest CT performed in the included children, along with core clinical observations. RESULTS: We included five children from 10 months to 6 years of age (mean 3.4 years). All had had at least one CT scan after admission. Three of these five had CT abnormality on the first CT scan (at 2 days, 4 days and 9 days, respectively, after onset of symptoms) in the form of patchy ground-glass opacities; all normalised during treatment. CONCLUSION: Compared to reports in adults, we found similar but more modest lung abnormalities at CT in our small paediatric cohort. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-03-11 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7080075/ /pubmed/32162081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00247-020-04656-7 Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Li, Wei Cui, Huaqian Li, Kunwei Fang, Yijie Li, Shaolin Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection |
title | Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection |
title_full | Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection |
title_fullStr | Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection |
title_full_unstemmed | Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection |
title_short | Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection |
title_sort | chest computed tomography in children with covid-19 respiratory infection |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7080075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32162081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00247-020-04656-7 |
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