Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19

The typical findings on CT in patients affected by novel COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pneumonia are characterized by ground-glass opacities and/or air space consolidation mainly bilateral and peripherical in distribution, including crazy paving pattern and reversed halo sign. We hereby descri...

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Autores principales: Bellini, Davide, Lichtner, Miriam, Vicini, Simone, Rengo, Marco, Ambrogi, Cesare, Carbone, Iacopo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7465755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32922851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200051
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author Bellini, Davide
Lichtner, Miriam
Vicini, Simone
Rengo, Marco
Ambrogi, Cesare
Carbone, Iacopo
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description The typical findings on CT in patients affected by novel COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pneumonia are characterized by ground-glass opacities and/or air space consolidation mainly bilateral and peripherical in distribution, including crazy paving pattern and reversed halo sign. We hereby describe a case of an adolescent male tested positive for COVID-19 with mild respiratory symptoms and presenting with pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding.
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spelling pubmed-74657552020-09-11 Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19 Bellini, Davide Lichtner, Miriam Vicini, Simone Rengo, Marco Ambrogi, Cesare Carbone, Iacopo BJR Case Rep Case Report The typical findings on CT in patients affected by novel COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pneumonia are characterized by ground-glass opacities and/or air space consolidation mainly bilateral and peripherical in distribution, including crazy paving pattern and reversed halo sign. We hereby describe a case of an adolescent male tested positive for COVID-19 with mild respiratory symptoms and presenting with pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding. The British Institute of Radiology. 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7465755/ /pubmed/32922851 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200051 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bellini, Davide
Lichtner, Miriam
Vicini, Simone
Rengo, Marco
Ambrogi, Cesare
Carbone, Iacopo
Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19
title Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19
title_full Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19
title_fullStr Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19
title_short Spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only CT finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for COVID-19
title_sort spontaneous pneumomediastinum as the only ct finding in an asymptomatic adolescent positive for covid-19
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7465755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32922851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200051
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