• Clinical imaging · Dec 2020

    CT imaging features of 34 patients infected with COVID-19.

    • Litao Zhang, Xue Kong, Xiujuan Li, Jianzhong Zhu, Shanping Liu, Weiwei Li, Chunlin Xu, Huanwang Du, Hui Jing, Jiahuan Xu, Tongtong Shi, and Yuanzhong Xie.
    • Department of Radiology, Tai'an Central Hospital, Shandong First Medical University, Tai'an 271000, Shandong, China.
    • Clin Imaging. 2020 Dec 1; 68: 226-231.

    ObjectiveTo retrospectively analyze the CT findings in patients infected with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).Materials And MethodsThe thirty-four cases, 15 females and 19 males, with an age ranging from 7 to 88 years old, confirmed by real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), were used for our study. All thin-section CT scans of the lungs were performed in all of patients. The clinical, laboratory and CT imaging were available to evaluate in all patients.ResultsThe patients present with fever (85.29%, n = 29), cough (67.65%, n = 23), fatigue or myalgia (26.47%, n = 9), and pharyngalgia (8.82%, n = 3). The 4 patients (11.76%) with no symptoms were identified during screening for close contacts, who had typical CT findings. On initial CT scans, the bilateral lung involved was shown in 24 cases (70.59%), while 29 (82.35%) cases were distributed in peripheral. The pure ground glass opacity (GGO) was shown in 18 cases (52.94%), the GGO with consolidation was in 12 cases (35.29%), and full consolidation only in 3 cases. The lesion with air bronchogram was seen in 14 (41.18%) cases, with enlarged blood vessel in 17 (50.00%) cases, with crazy-paving pattern in 8 (23.53%) cases, with fine reticular pattern in 4 (11.77%) cases, and with intralesional vacuole sign in 6 (17.65%) cases. The pleural effusion was seen in one patient. Follow-up imaging in 19 patients during the study time window demonstrated mild, moderate or severe progression of disease, as manifested by increasing extent and density of lung opacities.ConclusionsThe bilateral GGO with air bronchogram, enlarged blood vessel, fine reticular pattern, and peripheral distribution are the early CT findings of COVID-19. The crazy-paving pattern and intralesional vacuole sign are the features of progressive stage.© 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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