CT Imaging and Differential Diagnosis of COVID-19

Can Assoc Radiol J. 2020 May;71(2):195-200. doi: 10.1177/0846537120913033. Epub 2020 Mar 4.

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread throughout China. This study explains the findings from lung computed tomography images of some patients with COVID-19 treated in this medical institution and discusses the difference between COVID-19 and other lung diseases.

Depuis le début de l’année 2020, la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) s’est répandue dans toute la Chine. Cette étude analyse les résultats tirés des images de TDM pulmonaire de certains patients atteints de COVID-19 traités dans cet établissement médical et examine la différence entre le COVID-19 et d’autres maladies pulmonaires.

Keywords: 2019n-CoV; COVID19; CT; lung diseases; pneumonia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnostic imaging*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnostic imaging*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*