Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia is a recent outbreak in mainland China and has rapidly spread to multiple countries worldwide. Pulmonary parenchymal opacities are often observed during chest radiography. Currently, few cases have reported the complications of severe COVID-19 pneumo...

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Autores principales: Sun, Ruihong, Liu, Hongyuan, Wang, Xiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2020
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Thoracic Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7183834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32207255
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0180
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia is a recent outbreak in mainland China and has rapidly spread to multiple countries worldwide. Pulmonary parenchymal opacities are often observed during chest radiography. Currently, few cases have reported the complications of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. We report a case where serial follow-up chest computed tomography revealed progression of pulmonary lesions into confluent bilateral consolidation with lower lung predominance, thereby confirming COVID-19 pneumonia. Furthermore, complications such as mediastinal emphysema, giant bulla, and pneumothorax were also observed during the course of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-71838342020-05-06 Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia Sun, Ruihong Liu, Hongyuan Wang, Xiang Korean J Radiol Thoracic Imaging The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia is a recent outbreak in mainland China and has rapidly spread to multiple countries worldwide. Pulmonary parenchymal opacities are often observed during chest radiography. Currently, few cases have reported the complications of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. We report a case where serial follow-up chest computed tomography revealed progression of pulmonary lesions into confluent bilateral consolidation with lower lung predominance, thereby confirming COVID-19 pneumonia. Furthermore, complications such as mediastinal emphysema, giant bulla, and pneumothorax were also observed during the course of the disease. The Korean Society of Radiology 2020-05 2020-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7183834/ /pubmed/32207255 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0180 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Korean Society of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sun, Ruihong
Liu, Hongyuan
Wang, Xiang
Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia
title Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_full Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_fullStr Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_full_unstemmed Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_short Mediastinal Emphysema, Giant Bulla, and Pneumothorax Developed during the Course of COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_sort mediastinal emphysema, giant bulla, and pneumothorax developed during the course of covid-19 pneumonia
topic Thoracic Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7183834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32207255
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0180
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