A Patient with COVID-19 Presenting a False-Negative Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Result

Zuhua Chen¹, Yunjiang Li¹, Baoliang Wu¹, Yanchun Hou¹, Jianfeng Bao², Xueying Deng³

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¹ Department of Radiology, The Hangzhou Xixi Hospital, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
² Department of Science and Education, The Hangzhou Xixi Hospital, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
³ Department of Radiology, The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China. a1145047838@163.com.

PMID: 32207257
PMCID: PMC7183837
DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2020.0195

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A Patient with COVID-19 Presenting a False-Negative Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Result

Zuhua Chen et al. Korean J Radiol. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;21(5):623-624.

doi: 10.3348/kjr.2020.0195. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

Authors

Zuhua Chen¹, Yunjiang Li¹, Baoliang Wu¹, Yanchun Hou¹, Jianfeng Bao², Xueying Deng³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, The Hangzhou Xixi Hospital, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
² Department of Science and Education, The Hangzhou Xixi Hospital, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China.
³ Department of Radiology, The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China. a1145047838@163.com.

PMID: 32207257
PMCID: PMC7183837
DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2020.0195

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**Fig. 1. Different presentations of lesions in both lungs of patient.**
A. Pure GGO in left upper lobe. B. GGO with interlobular septal thickening in both right upper and middle lobe. C. GGO with consolidation in right upper lobe. D. Mostly consolidation lesions in left inferior lobe. GGO = ground-glass opacity

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1. Li D, Wang D, Dong J, Wang N, Huang H, Xu H, et al. False-negative results of real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2: role of deep-learning-based CT diagnosis and insights from two cases. Korean J Radiol. 2020;21:505–508. - PMC - PubMed
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