Common CT Findings of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Case Series

Given the highly infectious nature of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus and the lack of proven specific therapeutic drugs and licensed vaccines effective against it, early diagnosis of the disease is of paramount importance. The common chest CT imaging of confirmed COVID-19 cases is disc...

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Autores principales: Torkian, Pooya, Ramezani, Naghi, Kiani, Pejman, Bax, Michael R, Akhlaghpoor, Shahram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7186102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32351814
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7434
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author Torkian, Pooya
Ramezani, Naghi
Kiani, Pejman
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description Given the highly infectious nature of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus and the lack of proven specific therapeutic drugs and licensed vaccines effective against it, early diagnosis of the disease is of paramount importance. The common chest CT imaging of confirmed COVID-19 cases is discussed here, which shows ground-glass opacity, crazy paving, and consolidation.
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spelling pubmed-71861022020-04-29 Common CT Findings of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Case Series Torkian, Pooya Ramezani, Naghi Kiani, Pejman Bax, Michael R Akhlaghpoor, Shahram Cureus Radiology Given the highly infectious nature of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus and the lack of proven specific therapeutic drugs and licensed vaccines effective against it, early diagnosis of the disease is of paramount importance. The common chest CT imaging of confirmed COVID-19 cases is discussed here, which shows ground-glass opacity, crazy paving, and consolidation. Cureus 2020-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7186102/ /pubmed/32351814 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7434 Text en Copyright © 2020, Torkian et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Common CT Findings of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Case Series
title_fullStr Common CT Findings of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Case Series
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title_short Common CT Findings of Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Case Series
title_sort common ct findings of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19): a case series
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