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Usefulness of Mobile Computed Tomography in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia: A Case Series.
Rho, Ji Young; Yoon, Kwon Ha; Jeong, Sooyeon; Lee, Jae Hoon; Park, Chul; Kim, Hye Won.
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  • Rho JY; Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital, Iksan, Korea.
  • Yoon KH; Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital, Iksan, Korea. khy1646@wku.ac.kr.
  • Jeong S; Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital, Iksan, Korea.
  • Lee JH; Department of Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital, Iksan, Korea.
  • Park C; Department of Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital, Iksan, Korea.
  • Kim HW; Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital, Iksan, Korea.
Korean J Radiol ; 21(8): 1018-1023, 2020 08.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32677386
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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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Pneumonia Viral / Infecções por Coronavirus / Tomografia Computadorizada Multidetectores / Betacoronavirus Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Pneumonia Viral / Infecções por Coronavirus / Tomografia Computadorizada Multidetectores / Betacoronavirus Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article