Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign”

The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus, later named as coronavirus disease (COVID-19), began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has spread rapidly worldwide. Early diagnosis is crucial for the management of the patients with COVID-19, but the gold standard diagnostic test for this infection, the r...

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Autores principales: Poerio, Antonio, Sartoni, Matilde, Lazzari, Giammichele, Valli, Michele, Morsiani, Miria, Zompatori, Maurizio
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/PMC7458858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32729264
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0687
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author Poerio, Antonio
Sartoni, Matilde
Lazzari, Giammichele
Valli, Michele
Morsiani, Miria
Zompatori, Maurizio
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Valli, Michele
Morsiani, Miria
Zompatori, Maurizio
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description The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus, later named as coronavirus disease (COVID-19), began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has spread rapidly worldwide. Early diagnosis is crucial for the management of the patients with COVID-19, but the gold standard diagnostic test for this infection, the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, has a low sensitivity and an increased turnaround time. In this scenario, chest computed tomography (CT) could play a key role for an early diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. Here, we have reported a confirmed case of COVID-19 with an atypical CT presentation showing a “double halo sign,” which we believe represents the pathological spectrum of this viral pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-74588582020-10-01 Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign” Poerio, Antonio Sartoni, Matilde Lazzari, Giammichele Valli, Michele Morsiani, Miria Zompatori, Maurizio Korean J Radiol Thoracic Imaging The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus, later named as coronavirus disease (COVID-19), began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has spread rapidly worldwide. Early diagnosis is crucial for the management of the patients with COVID-19, but the gold standard diagnostic test for this infection, the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, has a low sensitivity and an increased turnaround time. In this scenario, chest computed tomography (CT) could play a key role for an early diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. Here, we have reported a confirmed case of COVID-19 with an atypical CT presentation showing a “double halo sign,” which we believe represents the pathological spectrum of this viral pneumonia. The Korean Society of Radiology 2020-10 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7458858/ /pubmed/32729264 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0687 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.
spellingShingle Thoracic Imaging
Poerio, Antonio
Sartoni, Matilde
Lazzari, Giammichele
Valli, Michele
Morsiani, Miria
Zompatori, Maurizio
Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign”
title Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign”
title_full Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign”
title_fullStr Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign”
title_full_unstemmed Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign”
title_short Halo, Reversed Halo, or Both? Atypical Computed Tomography Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pneumonia: The “Double Halo Sign”
title_sort halo, reversed halo, or both? atypical computed tomography manifestations of coronavirus disease (covid-19) pneumonia: the “double halo sign”
topic Thoracic Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32729264
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2020.0687
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