• Yasemin Gündüz, Mehmet Halil Öztürk, and Yakup Tomak.
• Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
• Turk J Med Sci. 2020 Jun 23; 50 (4): 684-686.

AbstractCOVID-19 infection, a highly contagious disease caused by the SARS-CoV virus, and the World Health Organization declared this increasingly spreading disease as a global public health emergency (pandemic). In the diagnosis of COVID-19, the polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is considered as the reference standard test. In the early stages, thorax CT findings could be present even before the onset of symptoms, thorax CT has quite high sensitivity in COVID-19 patients with false negative RT-PCR results, and it has a great importance not only in diagnosis but also in follow up. We think that it might be beneficial for our radiologist colleagues in the early diagnosis of the imaging features of this disease, by sharing the experiences we have gained by evaluating the typical and relatively atypical CT findings regarding the natural course of the tomographic findings of COVID-19 and when to control CT.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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