Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases

PCR-based viral RNA to confirm the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection has a sensitivity of around 70%. We report three cases of patients with negative initial PCR and CT scan lesions that led us to suspect COVID-19, but which one(s) are really COVID-19?

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Autores principales: Bouiller, Kevin, Humbert, Sébastien, Payet-Revest, Camille, Brunel, Anne-Sophie, Mareshal, Adrien, Lepiller, Quentin, Grillet, Franck, Chirouze, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32583171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-020-01467-8
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author Bouiller, Kevin
Humbert, Sébastien
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Brunel, Anne-Sophie
Mareshal, Adrien
Lepiller, Quentin
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Chirouze, Catherine
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Humbert, Sébastien
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Brunel, Anne-Sophie
Mareshal, Adrien
Lepiller, Quentin
Grillet, Franck
Chirouze, Catherine
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spelling pubmed-73136492020-06-24 Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases Bouiller, Kevin Humbert, Sébastien Payet-Revest, Camille Brunel, Anne-Sophie Mareshal, Adrien Lepiller, Quentin Grillet, Franck Chirouze, Catherine Infection Case Report PCR-based viral RNA to confirm the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection has a sensitivity of around 70%. We report three cases of patients with negative initial PCR and CT scan lesions that led us to suspect COVID-19, but which one(s) are really COVID-19? Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-06-24 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7313649/ /pubmed/32583171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-020-01467-8 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.
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Bouiller, Kevin
Humbert, Sébastien
Payet-Revest, Camille
Brunel, Anne-Sophie
Mareshal, Adrien
Lepiller, Quentin
Grillet, Franck
Chirouze, Catherine
Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases
title Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases
title_full Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases
title_fullStr Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases
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title_short Utility of CT scan in patients with initial negative PCR for SARS-CoV2: a report of three cases
title_sort utility of ct scan in patients with initial negative pcr for sars-cov2: a report of three cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313649/
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