ReviewInsights into imaging2020
COVID-19 pneumonia: the great radiological mimicker.
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- Chest CT-detected pulmonary nodules across the COVID-19 pandemic in Guangzhou, China: a regression discontinuity-in-time study, 2013-2023.Translational lung cancer research · 2026Article
- Radiation Dose Estimation and Lifetime Attributable Risk of Radiation-Induced Cancer from Chest CT in COVID-19 Patients.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Article
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- Imaging of pulmonary infections encountered in the emergency department in post-COVID 19 era- common, rare and exotic. Bacterial and viral.Emergency radiology · 2024Review
- A Literature Review on the Relative Diagnostic Accuracy of Chest CT Scans versus RT-PCR Testing for COVID-19 Diagnosis.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2024Review
- Bacterial Community- and Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in Patients with Critical COVID-19-A Prospective Monocentric Cohort Study.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Detection of subsolid nodules on chest CT scans during the COVID-19 pandemic.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2024Article
- Doubts and concerns about COVID-19 uncertainties on imaging data, clinical score, and outcomes.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Article
- Emergence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis While Recovering From COVID-19 Pneumonia: A Case Report.Cureus · 2023Article
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- Pembrolizumab-related pneumonitis in a patient with COVID-19 infection.Singapore medical journal · 2023Article
- Right Atrial Thrombus and Submassive Pulmonary Embolism in a COVID-19-Infected Patient: A Case Report.Cureus · 2023Article
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- Post-COVID-19 Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Treated Successfully with Whole Lung Lavage: A Rare Case Report.Pulmonary therapy · 2023Article
- CT imaging of HIV-associated pulmonary disorders in COVID-19 pandemic.Clinical imaging · 2023Review
- Grayscale Image Statistical Attributes Effectively Distinguish the Severity of Lung Abnormalities in CT Scan Slices of COVID-19 Patients.SN computer science · 2023Article
- Evaluation of coronavirus-2019-related arterial thrombosis in noncontrast spectral computed tomography with electron density imaging.Radiology case reports · 2023Article
- Relationship between Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S Abs and IFN-λ3 Levels in the Administration of Oxygen following COVID-19 Vaccination.ImmunoHorizons · 2023Article
- Two in one: Overlapping CT findings of COVID-19 and underlying lung diseases.Clinical imaging · 2023Review
- SHEA statement on antibiotic stewardship in hospitals during public health emergencies.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2022Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has rapidly spread worldwide since December 2019. Although the reference diagnostic test is a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), chest-computed tomography (CT) has been frequently used in diagnosis because of the low sensitivity rates of RT-PCR. CT findings of COVID-19 are well described in the literature and include predominantly peripheral, bilateral ground-glass opacities (GGOs), combination of GGOs with consolidations, and/or septal thickening creating a "crazy-paving" pattern. Longitudinal changes of typical CT findings and less reported findings (air bronchograms, CT halo sign, and reverse halo sign) may mimic a wide range of lung pathologies radiologically. Moreover, accompanying and underlying lung abnormalities may interfere with the CT findings of COVID-19 pneumonia. The diseases that COVID-19 pneumonia may mimic can be broadly classified as infectious or non-infectious diseases (pulmonary edema, hemorrhage, neoplasms, organizing pneumonia, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, sarcoidosis, pulmonary infarction, interstitial lung diseases, and aspiration pneumonia). We summarize the imaging findings of COVID-19 and the aforementioned lung pathologies that COVID-19 pneumonia may mimic. We also discuss the features that may aid in the differential diagnosis, as the disease continues to spread and will be one of our main differential diagnoses some time more.
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