Journal of thoracic imaging

The most recent articles from: J Thorac Imaging January 2021

J Thorac Imaging · Jan 2021

Performance of Chest Computed Tomography in Differentiating Coronavirus Disease 2019 From Other Viral Infections Using a Standardized Classification.

An expert consensus recently proposed a standardized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reporting language for computed tomography (CT) findings of COVID-19 pneumonia. ⋯ The standardized chest CT classification demonstrated high specificity and positive predictive value in differentiating COVID-19 from other viral infections when presenting a "typical" appearance in a high pretest probability environment. Good to excellent inter-rater agreement was found regarding the CT standardized categories between the readers.

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