| Literature DB >> 33646498 |
Eleonora Carlicchi1, Pietro Gemma2, Antonio Poerio3, Antonella Caminati4, Angelo Vanzulli5,6, Maurizio Zompatori7.
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in early December 2019 in China, as an acute lower respiratory tract infection and spread rapidly worldwide being declared a pandemic in March 2020. Chest-computed tomography (CT) has been utilized in different clinical settings of COVID-19 patients; however, COVID-19 imaging appearance is highly variable and nonspecific. Indeed, many pulmonary infections and non-infectious diseases can show similar CT findings and mimic COVID-19 pneumonia. In this review, we discuss clinical conditions that share a similar imaging appearance with COVID-19 pneumonia, in order to identify imaging and clinical characteristics useful in the differential diagnosis.Entities:
Keywords: COVID-19 pneumonia; Chest HRCT; Differential diagnosis
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33646498 PMCID: PMC7917172 DOI: 10.1007/s10140-021-01919-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Emerg Radiol ISSN: 1070-3004