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SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe chest computed tomography image findings in patients with COVID-19. METHODS: The chest computed tomography scans of 453 hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 were collected at two tertiary care Brazilian hospitals. Demographics and clinical data were extracted from the electronic record medical system. RESULTS: The main chest computed tomography findings were ground-glass opacities (92.5%), consolidation (79.2%), crazy-paving pattern (23.9%), parenchymal bands (50%), septal thickening (43.5%), and inverted halo sign (3.5%). Of the 453 hospitalized patients, 136 (30%) died. In this group, ground-glass opacities (94.1%), consolidation (89.7%), septal thickening (58.1%), crazy-paving pattern (52.2%), and parenchymal bands (39.7%) were the most common imaging findings. CONCLUSIONS: In a dynamic disease with a broad clinical spectrum such as COVID-19, radiologists can cooperate in a better patient management. On wisely indicated chest computed tomography scans, the fast identification of poor prognosis findings could advise patient management through hospital care facilities and clinical team decisions.
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Humans , COVID-19 , Thorax , Brazil , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , SARS-CoV-2 , Lung/diagnostic imagingABSTRACT
Os autores apresentam os achados de exames de imagem de 19 pacientes pediátricos com massas abdominais volumosas. Foram selecionadas imagens de ultra-sonografia (US), tomografia computadorizada (TC) e ressonância magnética (RM). Nos 19 pacientes estudados os diagnósticos foram: hidronefrose, tumor de WiIms, neuroblastoma, carcinoma de adrenal, sarcoma, hemangioendotelioma, hepatoblastoma, hamartoma mesenquimal, carcinoma hepatocelular, cisto de colédoco, cisto esplênico, linfoma, cisto de mesentério, teratoma, hidrometrocolpos, lipoma. Os exames de imagem (US, TC e RM) são importantes ferramentas na avaliação de massas abdominais pediátricas e podem contribuir para o diagnóstico e avaliação da extensão dessas entidades.