Cardio-thoracic imaging and COVID-19 in the pediatric population: A narrative review

Worldwide experience about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemics suggests that symptomatic disease is significantly less frequent in the pediatric age range. Nevertheless, multi-system inflammatory syndrome has been consistently reported in children and has been associated with severe acute...

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Autores principales: Ferrero, Paolo, Piazza, Isabelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021
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Minireviews
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8069348/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33968312
http://dx.doi.org/10.4329/wjr.v13.i4.94
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Sumario:Worldwide experience about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemics suggests that symptomatic disease is significantly less frequent in the pediatric age range. Nevertheless, multi-system inflammatory syndrome has been consistently reported in children and has been associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 exposure. In this paper we give an overview of the multimodality chest imaging of pediatric patients with suspected COVID-19, focusing on relevant differences with adults.

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