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Comment
. 2020 May;21(5):623-624.
doi: 10.3348/kjr.2020.0195. Epub 2020 Mar 20.

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

Zuhua Chen  1 , Yunjiang Li  1 , Baoliang Wu  1 , Yanchun Hou  1 , Jianfeng Bao  2 , Xueying Deng  3
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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.
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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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