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ReviewInsights into imaging2021

Mimickers of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on chest CT: spectrum of CT and clinical features.

Ali H Elmokadem, Nihal M Batouty, Dalia Bayoumi, Basma N Gadelhak, Rihame M Abdel-Wahab, Mona Zaky, Sherif A Abo-Hedibah, Ahmed Ehab, Ahmed El-Morsy

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Review in Insights into imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ali H ElmokademDepartment of Radiology, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria St., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt. mokadem83@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5119-9548
Nihal M BatoutyDepartment of Radiology, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria St., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt.
Dalia BayoumiDepartment of Radiology, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria St., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt.
Basma N GadelhakDepartment of Radiology, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria St., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt.
Rihame M Abdel-WahabDepartment of Radiology, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria St., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt.
Mona ZakyDepartment of Radiology, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria St., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt.
Sherif A Abo-HedibahDepartment of Radiology, Farwaniya Hospital, Al Farwaniyah , Kuwait.
Ahmed EhabPulmonary Medicine Department, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
Ahmed El-MorsyDepartment of Radiology, Mansoura University, Elgomhoria St., Mansoura, 35516, Egypt.
Mansoura University · EGCairo University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is a recently emerged pulmonary infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). It started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and led to a highly contagious disease. Since then COVID-19 continues to spread, causing exponential morbidity and mortality and threatening economies worldwide. While the primary diagnostic test for COVID-19 is the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay, chest CT has proven to be a diagnostic tool of high sensitivity. A variety of conditions demonstrates CT features that are difficult to differentiate from COVID-19 rendering CT to be of low specificity. Radiologists and physicians should be aware of imaging patterns of these conditions to prevent an erroneous diagnosis that could adversely influence management and patients' outcome. Our purpose is to provide a practical review of the conditions that mimic COVID-19. A brief description of the forementioned clinical conditions with their CT features will be included.

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Computed tomographyCoronavirus disease 2019COVID-19Differential diagnosisSARS-COV2

Identifiers

PMID33533965
PMCPMC7856625
OpenAlexW3128319632

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