Added value of chest computed tomography in suspected COVID-19: an analysis of 239 patients

Eur Respir J. 2020 Aug 20;56(2):2001377. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01377-2020. Print 2020 Aug.

Abstract

In a high-prevalence emergency department setting, chest CT showed a high probability of COVID-19 in 30% of patients with a negative or indeterminate initial RT-PCR result https://bit.ly/38hLDzR

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Testing
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques
  • Cohort Studies
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
  • DNA, Viral / analysis*
  • Emergency Service, Hospital / statistics & numerical data
  • Female
  • Hospitals, University
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Netherlands
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
  • Radiography, Thoracic / methods*
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods*
  • Reference Values
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*

Substances

  • DNA, Viral