Usefulness of Mobile Computed Tomography in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia: A Case Series.
Korean J Radiol
; 21(8): 1018-1023, 2020 08.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-647741
ABSTRACT
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has reached global pandemic status as announced by the World Health Organization, which currently recommends reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) as the standard diagnostic tool. However, although the RT-PCR test results may be found negative, there are cases that are found positive for COVID-19 pneumonia on computed tomography (CT) scan. CT is also useful in assessing the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. When clinicians desire a CT scan of a patient with COVID-19 to monitor treatment response, a safe method for patient transport is necessary. To address the engagement of medical resources necessary to transport a patient with COVID-19, our institution has implemented the use of mobile CT. Therefore, we report two cases of COVID-19 pneumonia evaluated by using mobile cone-beam CT. Although mobile cone-beam CT had some limitations regarding its image quality such as scatter noise, motion and streak artifacts, and limited field of view compared with conventional multi-detector CT, both cases had acceptable image quality to establish the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. We report the usefulness of mobile cone-beam CT in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.
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Asunto principal:
Neumonía Viral
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Infecciones por Coronavirus
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Tomografía Computarizada Multidetector
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Betacoronavirus
Tipo de estudio:
Reporte de caso
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Estudio experimental
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Estudio pronóstico
Límite:
Anciano
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Femenino
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Humanos
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Masculino
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Korean J Radiol
Asunto de la revista:
Radiología
Año:
2020
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