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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) imaging reporting and data system (COVID-RADS) and common lexicon: a proposal based on the imaging data of 37 studies.
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- Differences of the Chest Images Between Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Patients and Influenza Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.International journal of medical sciences · 2025Pooled it
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- Ischemic gastrointestinal complications of COVID-19: a systematic review on imaging presentation.Clinical imaging · 2021Pooled it
- Imaging Findings of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Pediatrics: A Systematic Review of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in 850 Patients.Academic radiology · 2020Pooled it
- Comparison of the Degree of Chest CT Scan Abnormalities in COVID-19 and Influenza Patients.Cureus · 2024Article
- Machine learning-based computer-aided simple triage (CAST) for COVID-19 pneumonia as compared with triage by board-certified chest radiologists.Japanese journal of radiology · 2024Article
- Chronic Lung Injury after COVID-19 Pneumonia: Clinical, Radiologic, and Histopathologic Perspectives.Radiology · 2024Review
- The role of iodinated contrast media in computed tomography structured Reporting and Data Systems (RADS): a narrative review.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Review
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- Current and Emerging Knowledge in COVID-19.Radiology · 2023Review
- COVID-19 pneumonia: lessons learned, challenges, and preparing for the future.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2022Article
- COVID-19 vs. Influenza: A Chest X-ray Comparison.Cureus · 2022Article
- AI-Based Chest CT Analysis for Rapid COVID-19 Diagnosis and Prognosis: A Practical Tool to Flag High-Risk Patients and Lower Healthcare Costs.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Role of Imaging in the Detection of Non-COVID-19 Pathologies during the Massive Screening of the First Pandemic Wave.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Impact of sarcopenia in SARS-CoV-2 patients during two different epidemic waves.Clinical nutrition ESPEN · 2022Article
- Empowering the willing: the feasibility of tele-mentored self-performed pleural ultrasound assessment for the surveillance of lung health.The ultrasound journal · 2022Article
- Automatized lung disease quantification in patients with COVID-19 as a predictive tool to assess hospitalization severity.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Diagnostic performance and inter-observer variability of CO-RADS in the triage of patients with suspected COVID-19 infection: initial experience in Zagazig University Hospital.Polish journal of radiology · 2022Article
- Dynamic Changes in Lung Function and Imaging in Patients with COVID-19.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2022Review
- Chest radiography evaluation in patients admitted with confirmed COVID-19 infection, in a resource limited South African isolation hospital.SA journal of radiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn the vast majority of the laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, computed tomography (CT) examinations yield a typical pattern and the sensitivity of this modality has been reported to be 97% in a large-scale study. Structured reporting systems simplify the interpretation and reporting of imaging examinations, serve as a framework for consistent generation of recommendations, and improve the quality of patient care. PURPOSE: To compose a comprehensive lexicon for description of the imaging findings and propose a grading system and structured reporting format for CT findings in COVID-19. MATERIAL AND
methodsWe updated our published systematic review on imaging findings in COVID-19 to include 37 published studies pertaining to diagnostic features of COVID-19 in chest CT. Using the reported imaging findings of 3647 patients, we summarized the typical chest CT findings, atypical features, and temporal changes of COVID-19 in chest CT. Subsequently, we extracted a list of descriptive terms and mapped it to the terminology that is commonly used in imaging literature.
resultsWe composed a comprehensive lexicon that can be used for documentation and reporting of typical and atypical CT imaging findings in COVID-19 patients. Using the same data, we propose a grading system with five COVID-RADS categories. Each COVID-RADS grade corresponds to a low, moderate, or high level of suspicion for pulmonary involvement of COVID-19.
conclusionThe proposed COVID-RADS and common lexicon would improve the communication of findings to other healthcare providers, thus facilitating the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 patients. KEY POINTS: • Chest CT has high sensitivity in diagnosing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). • Structured reporting systems simplify the interpretation and reporting of imaging examinations, serve as a framework for consistent generation of recommendations, and improve the quality of patient care. • The proposed COVID-RADS and common lexicon would improve the communication of findings to other healthcare providers, thus facilitating the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 patients.
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