RESUMO
The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus, later named as coronavirus disease (COVID-19), began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has spread rapidly worldwide. Early diagnosis is crucial for the management of the patients with COVID-19, but the gold standard diagnostic test for this infection, the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, has a low sensitivity and an increased turnaround time. In this scenario, chest computed tomography (CT) could play a key role for an early diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. Here, we have reported a confirmed case of COVID-19 with an atypical CT presentation showing a "double halo sign," which we believe represents the pathological spectrum of this viral pneumonia.
Assuntos
Betacoronavirus , Infecções por Coronavirus/diagnóstico por imagem , Pneumonia Viral/diagnóstico por imagem , Betacoronavirus/genética , COVID-19 , Teste para COVID-19 , Técnicas de Laboratório Clínico , Infecções por Coronavirus/diagnóstico , Diagnóstico Precoce , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pandemias , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , SARS-CoV-2 , Tórax , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios XRESUMO
One of the known agent that causes an organizing pneumonia could be the chronic inhalation of food, but generally we can't find the specific food that caused this pattern. We show a case where, with an accurate medical history, supported by the various histological investigation steps, we could reach the specific cause of it.