1. A role for CT in COVID-19? What data really tell us so far.
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Hope, Michael D, Raptis, Constantine A, Shah, Amar, Hammer, Mark M, Henry, Travis S, and six signatories
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COVID-19 , *COMPUTED tomography , *CLINICAL pathology , *EPIDEMICS , *PATIENT safety , *POLYMERASE chain reaction , *PREDICTIVE tests - Abstract
They found that 97% of cases with RT-PCR-confirmed diagnoses had CT findings of pneumonia, and conclude, "CT imaging has high sensitivity for diagnosis of COVID-19". Less than two-thirds (61%) of cases had lung opacities on CT; 20% of symptomatic patients had negative CTs. References 1 T Ai, Z Yang, H Hou, Correlation of chest CT and RT-PCR testing in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: a report of 1014 cases. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
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