COVID-19 in cancer patients can be challenging to screen in a resource limited setting.
Cancer Treat Res Commun
; 25: 100214, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-841265
ABSTRACT
During this COVID-19 pandemic, patients with symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, and coryza were advised to have RT-PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection. We described here an elderly female with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, who presented with atypical symptoms that were not directly attributable to COVID-19. This patient was admitted to the non-COVID-19 ward for supportive care. Later, her chest x-ray revealed pneumonia that was confirmed to be COVID-19 by RT-PCR testing several days later. In resource-poor settings where molecular testing results suffered from delays or were altogether unavailable, the use of diagnostic imaging such as a chest x-ray could serve as a quick guide in the assessment and management of these patients especially if the imaging results suggest COVID-19 infection.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
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Pharyngitis
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COVID-19
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Case report
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Diagnostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Cancer Treat Res Commun
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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