Imaging aspects (chest radiographic and CT scan findings) of COVID-19 with clinical classifications

ABSTRACT

Chest radiographic (CXR) and chest computed tomography (CT) scans have been used to diagnose coronavirus (COVID-19) disease as an important counterpart to the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) diagnostic protocol. This work explores the application of CXR and CT scans as diagnostic instruments for COVID-19. Numerous databases were searched from 01/01/2020 till 2020 late for COVID-19 articles which documented the clinical features of CXR and CT scans. The documented cases were based on the evaluation of the imaging characteristics. Chest radiographic findings may be confirmed with the most basic CT scans. Peripheral, bilateral and primary ground-glass distortion are the most prominent CT results with COVID-19 infections. In conclusion, unique and ambiguous terms such as pneumonia, blurred opacities, airspace disease, patchy opacities, and infiltrates make it difficult to perceive the different chest radiographic findings.