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Case Reports
Incidental CT findings in the lungs in COVID-19 patients presenting with abdominal pain.
- Nicholas Voutsinas, Danielle Toussie, Adam Jacobi, Adam Bernheim, and Michael Chung.
- Icahn School of Medicine, Department of Diagnostic, Molecular, and Interventional Radiology, 1 Gustave Levy Place, Box 1234, NY, New York 10029, United States of America. Electronic address: nicholas.voutsinas@mountsinai.org.
- Clin Imaging. 2020 Nov 1; 67: 1-4.
AbstractAs the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to spread, some patients are presenting with abdominal symptoms without respiratory complaints. Our case series documents four patients who presented with abdominal symptoms whose abdominopelvic CT revealed incidental pulmonary parenchymal findings in the imaged lung bases and were subsequently confirmed positive for COVID-19 via laboratory testing. It remains to be seen whether these patients will eventually develop respiratory symptoms. While it is possible that the patients' abdominal complaints are coincidental with CT findings, it is interesting that patients can have such extensive incidental disease in the lungs on CT without respiratory symptoms.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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