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Editorial
. 2021 Mar;298(3):E156-E157.
doi: 10.1148/radiol.2020204038. Epub 2020 Dec 8.

Chest Radiography in COVID-19: No Role in Asymptomatic and Oligosymptomatic Disease

Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop  1 , Mathias Prokop  1
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Editorial

Chest Radiography in COVID-19: No Role in Asymptomatic and Oligosymptomatic Disease

Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop et al. Radiology. 2021 Mar.
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Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop is Professor of Radiology at Hanover Medical School in Germany. After training in Germany she held academic positions in Hanover, Vienna, Austria, Amsterdam and later Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She was president of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging and is board member of the Fleischner Society. Her research covers pulmonary CTA, HRCT and artificial intelligence applications in chest radiology. She is part of the Dutch COVID-19 working group.
Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop is Professor of Radiology at Hanover Medical School in Germany. After training in Germany she held academic positions in Hanover, Vienna, Austria, Amsterdam and later Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She was president of the European Society of Thoracic Imaging and is board member of the Fleischner Society. Her research covers pulmonary CTA, HRCT and artificial intelligence applications in chest radiology. She is part of the Dutch COVID-19 working group.
Mathias Prokop is Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He trained at Hanover Medical School in Germany and held academic positions in Hanover, Vienna, Austria, and Utrecht in the Netherlands. He is member of the Fleischner Society and has earned various honors of German, British, Austrian, Hungarian and European Societies of Radiology. He has worked on spiral CT, CTA, chest screening and introduced the CO-RADS score for COVID-19.
Mathias Prokop is Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He trained at Hanover Medical School in Germany and held academic positions in Hanover, Vienna, Austria, and Utrecht in the Netherlands. He is member of the Fleischner Society and has earned various honors of German, British, Austrian, Hungarian and European Societies of Radiology. He has worked on spiral CT, CTA, chest screening and introduced the CO-RADS score for COVID-19.
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