Chest computed tomography in children with COVID-19 respiratory infection.
Pediatr Radiol
; 50(6): 796-799, 2020 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-827727
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Infection with COVID-19 is currently rare in children.OBJECTIVE:
To describe chest CT findings in children with COVID-19. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
We studied children at a large tertiary-care hospital in China, during the period from 28 January 2019 to 8 February 2020, who had positive reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for COVID-19. We recorded findings at any chest CT performed in the included children, along with core clinical observations.RESULTS:
We included five children from 10 months to 6 years of age (mean 3.4 years). All had had at least one CT scan after admission. Three of these five had CT abnormality on the first CT scan (at 2 days, 4 days and 9 days, respectively, after onset of symptoms) in the form of patchy ground-glass opacities; all normalised during treatment.CONCLUSION:
Compared to reports in adults, we found similar but more modest lung abnormalities at CT in our small paediatric cohort.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Coronavirus Infections
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Lung
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
Language:
English
Journal:
Pediatr Radiol
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S00247-020-04656-7
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