| Literature DB >> 32723448 |
Okan Gurkan1, Ayhan Yilmaz1, Ferhat Cengel1, Elif Sargin Altunok2, Elif Evrim Ekin1.
Abstract
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has spread all over the world in a short time and was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). During COVID-19 pandemic, chest computed tomography (CT) imaging has become an important tool with high sensitivity for diagnosis due to the low positive rate of the real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Furthermore, the chest CT has played an important role in the diagnosis of underlying pulmonary lesions. In this case report, we present a patient who was admitted to the emergency department with fever, cough and left shoulder pain, and was subsequently diagnosed with both COVID-19 and pneumothorax following chest CT and RT-PCR test. Key Words: COVID-19, Coronavirus, Pneumothorax, Tomography.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32723448 DOI: 10.29271/jcpsp.2020.Supp1.S43
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Coll Physicians Surg Pak ISSN: 1022-386X Impact factor: 0.711