Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Outbreak in 2019: Computed Tomographic Findings in Two Cases

Abstract

Since the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV or officially named by the World Health Organization as COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in 2019, there have been a few reports of its imaging findings. Here, we report two confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV pneumonia with chest computed tomography findings of multiple regions of patchy consolidation and ground-glass opacities in both lungs. These findings were characteristically located along the bronchial bundle or subpleural lungs.

Keywords: 2019 novel coronavirus; Computed tomography; Severe acute respiratory infection.

Fig. 1. Thirty five-year-old man with 2019-novel coronavirus pneumonia.

A–D. Axial computed tomography (CT) images of upper, middle, and lower lobes of right lung and lower lobe of left lung show multifocal regions of patchy consolidation and nodular ground-glass opacities, mainly distributed along bronchial bundles and subpleural regions. E. Coronal reformation CT image shows multifocal nodular groundglass opacities in right lower lung lobe.

Fig. 2. Thirty nine-year-old man with 2019-novel coronavirus pneumonia.

A, B. High-resolution computed tomography images show ill-defined focal consolidation (arrow) along bronchovascular bundles in right lower lung lobe (A) and ill-defined ground-glass opacities (arrow) in subpleural regions of left lower lung lobe (B).