Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation

A 26 year old female presented with complaints of high grade fever and cough for 10 days. Nasopharyngeal swab tested for COVID-19 RT-PCR at admission was negative. Clinical examination suggested a patch of bronchial breathing in left infrascapular region and bilateral diffuse rhonchi. Chest X-ray wa...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kumar, Anuj, Jaggi, Surabhi, Singh, Siddarth, Dutta, Kashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7925238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34752324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2021.02.012
_version_ 1783659237425020928
author Kumar, Anuj
Jaggi, Surabhi
Singh, Siddarth
Dutta, Kashish
author_facet Kumar, Anuj
Jaggi, Surabhi
Singh, Siddarth
Dutta, Kashish
author_sort Kumar, Anuj
collection PubMed
description A 26 year old female presented with complaints of high grade fever and cough for 10 days. Nasopharyngeal swab tested for COVID-19 RT-PCR at admission was negative. Clinical examination suggested a patch of bronchial breathing in left infrascapular region and bilateral diffuse rhonchi. Chest X-ray was suggestive of left lower zone consolidation. HRCT showed a large patch of consolidation with GGO along with a cavitary lesion involving left lower lobe. Sputum for RT-PCR COVID 19 was positive. Patient was managed as per covid-19 protocol, subsequently showing clinical and radiological improvement.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7925238
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-79252382021-03-03 Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation Kumar, Anuj Jaggi, Surabhi Singh, Siddarth Dutta, Kashish Indian J Tuberc Case Report A 26 year old female presented with complaints of high grade fever and cough for 10 days. Nasopharyngeal swab tested for COVID-19 RT-PCR at admission was negative. Clinical examination suggested a patch of bronchial breathing in left infrascapular region and bilateral diffuse rhonchi. Chest X-ray was suggestive of left lower zone consolidation. HRCT showed a large patch of consolidation with GGO along with a cavitary lesion involving left lower lobe. Sputum for RT-PCR COVID 19 was positive. Patient was managed as per covid-19 protocol, subsequently showing clinical and radiological improvement. Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-10 2021-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7925238/ /pubmed/34752324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2021.02.012 Text en © 2021 Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kumar, Anuj
Jaggi, Surabhi
Singh, Siddarth
Dutta, Kashish
Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation
title Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation
title_full Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation
title_fullStr Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation
title_full_unstemmed Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation
title_short Covid-19 pneumonia: An unusual radiological presentation
title_sort covid-19 pneumonia: an unusual radiological presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7925238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34752324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2021.02.012
work_keys_str_mv AT kumaranuj covid19pneumoniaanunusualradiologicalpresentation
AT jaggisurabhi covid19pneumoniaanunusualradiologicalpresentation
AT singhsiddarth covid19pneumoniaanunusualradiologicalpresentation
AT duttakashish covid19pneumoniaanunusualradiologicalpresentation

Ejemplares similares