Imaging auxiliary diagnosis of corona virus disease 2019 / 中国医学影像技术

ABSTRACT

Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) is an acute respiratory tract infectious disease caused by infection with 2019 novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV), which is mainly characterized with pulmonary inflammatory lesions, strong infectivity and long incubation period. At present, the gold standard for diagnosis of COVID-2019 is positive nucleic acid test result. However, nucleic acid test Results: of some patients are false negative, and the number of patients need to be screened is so large. For asymptomatic patients and the large number of patients needed to be screened, imaging examinations are particularly important. The main points of CT and ultrasonic examination in auxiliary diagnosis of COVID-2019, the advantages of ultrasonic examination and protective specifications were reviewed in this article.