Radiology of COVID-19 pneumonia

  • Qonita Said-Hartley Division of Radiology Department of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital
  • Sulaiman Moosa Division of Radiology Department of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) started as a cluster of pneumonia cases in December 2019 and has rapidly spread across the world, resulting in millions of infections, and approaching one million deaths. In this short review we describe the most common chest x-ray and computed tomography manifestations of the virus as it affects the respiratory system, and make brief references to the common clinical presentations.
Published
2020-11-04
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