Chest CT manifestations of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a pictorial review

By Z. Ye, Yun Zhang, Yi Wang, Zixia Huang, B. Song. European Radiology, 2020

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, first reported in Wuhan, China, has rapidly swept around the world just within a month, causing global public health emergency. In diagnosis, chest computed tomography (CT) manifestations can supplement parts of limitations of real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay. Based on a comprehensive literature review and the experience in the frontline, we aim to review the typical and relatively atypical CT manifestations with representative COVID-19 cases at our hospital, and hope to strengthen the recognition of these features with radiologists and help them make a quick and accurate diagnosis. Key Points • Ground glass opacities, consolidation, reticular pattern, and crazy paving pattern are typical CT manifestations of COVID-19. • Emerging atypical CT manifestations, including airway changes, pleural changes, fibrosis, nodules, etc., were demonstrated in COVID-19 patients. • CT manifestations may associate with the progression and prognosis of COVID-19.

Subfields: Dermatology, Infectious Diseases, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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Deep transfer learning-based automated detection of COVID-19 from lung CT scan slices (2020, background): “However, CT scan is more useful in COVID-19 detection because it can provide a complete 3-D view of organ and thus nature of abnormality can be better diagnosed in comparison to X-ray images [47], [48], [49], [50].”
Dual-Functional Plasmonic Photothermal Biosensors for Highly Accurate Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Detection (2020, background): “Other approaches such as CT scan and culture methods are apparently not suitable for fast-response detection and real-time analysis. 12 Therefore, it is advantageous to thoroughly investigate suspected patients by another reliable diagnosis system.”
Inf-Net: Automatic COVID-19 Lung Infection Segmentation From CT Images (2020, background): “In recent studies [4], [10], the typical signs of infection could be observed from CT scans, e.”
The Role of Imaging in the Detection and Management of COVID-19: A Review (2020, background): “These imaging interpretations played a key role not only in the diagnosis of COVID-19 but also in the monitoring of disease progression and the evaluation of therapeutic efﬁcacy [15], [16].”
Chest CT score in COVID-19 patients: correlation with disease severity and short-term prognosis (2020, methodology): “Based on previous publication [13, 14], diagnosis of a suspected SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia was established considering the following chest CT patterns: GGO, crazy-paving, and consolidation.”