COVID-19 pneumonia identified by CT of the abdomen: A report of three emergency patients presenting with abdominal pain.
Radiol Case Rep
; 15(11): 2090-2094, 2020 Nov.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-704184
ABSTRACT
Patients with COVID-19 infection may present to the Emergency Department (ED) with gastrointestinal complaints and no respiratory symptoms. We are presenting 3 patients who came to the ED with abdominal pain; and the computed tomography [CT] of the abdomen showed findings suggestive of COVID-19 pneumonia. A 65-year-old male patient presented with symptoms of urinary tract infection and left renal angle tenderness. A 42-year-old male patient presented with right flank pain postextracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. A 71-year-old male known to have type 2 diabetes mellitus and who had had whipple surgery for a neoplasm of the head of the pancreas presented with a painful epigasteric swelling. The 3 patients had positive COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and mild-to-moderate illness, and were discharged home after 2 weeks with a good recovery. The first patient had a false negative early PCR test, which turned positive on 2 repetitions of the test. A systematic review of CT abdomen, including inspection of the lung bases using the lung window in all CT abdomen, is essential to detect findings suggestive of COVID-19 pneumonia in patients requiring a CT abdomen study. As proven in the literature, CT findings of COVID-19 pneumonia have a higher sensitivity than the PCR test.
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Radiol Case Rep
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2020
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J.radcr.2020.08.015
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