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Review
. 2020 Apr 21;50(SI-1):604-610.
doi: 10.3906/sag-2004-160.

Radiological approaches to COVID-19 pneumonia

Şule Akçay  1 , Tevfik Özlü  2 , Aydın Yılmaz  3
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Review

Radiological approaches to COVID-19 pneumonia

Şule Akçay et al. Turk J Med Sci. .

Abstract

COVID-19 pneumonia has high mortality rates. The symptoms are undiagnostic, the results of viral nucleic acid detection method (PCR) can delay, so that chest computerized tomography is often key diagnostic test in patients with possible COVID-19 pneumonia. In this review, we discussed the main radiological findings of this infection.

Keywords: COVID-19; chest computerized tomography; pneumonia.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
A 32-year-old man was admitted to our clinic with symptoms of fever and cough. PCR was positive for novel coronavirus. Focal small patchy infiltrate (atypical appearance) was seen in right and left lower lobe (archives of Şule Akçay).
Figure 2
Figure 2
A 66-year-old man’s chest CT imaging, PCR positive, and CT has right upper lobe consolidation which is atypical appearance for COVID-19 pneumonia (archives of Şule Akçay).
Figure 3
Figure 3
A 66-year-old man with chronic renal failure. PCR was negative. However, his wife has diagnosed as having COVID-19 pneumonia by PCR positivity. Ground-glass opacity was seen on left lower lobe, and treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia was applied (archives of Şule Akçay).
Figure 4
Figure 4
A 47-year-old man with chronic renal failure. PCR was positive. Chest CT revealed bilateral peripheral patchy infiltration (archives of Şule Akçay).
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Figure 5
A 62-year-old man, PCR positive. Bilateral multilobar GGO on his chest CT (archives of Şule Akçay).
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Figure 6
A 61-year-old man, PCR positive, unilateral multilobar focal consolidation areas on his chest CT (archives of Şule Akçay).
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Figure 7
A 72-year-old man, PCR was negative. However, his wife’s swab was PCR positive. His chest CT has GGO in both lungs’ multilobes as typical COVID-19 pneumonia, early pneumonia treatment was essential according this imaging (archives of Şule Akçay).
Figure 8
Figure 8
A 55-year-old woman, PCR was positive, bilateral multilobar GGO was seen in her chest CT (archives of Şule Akçay).
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