A role for CT in COVID-19? What data really tell us so far

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Radiology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: michael.hope@ucsf.edu.
² Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

Michael D Hope et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 11;395(10231):1189-1190.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30728-5. Epub 2020 Mar 27.

¹ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Radiology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: michael.hope@ucsf.edu.
² Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.

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