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CT differential diagnosis of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 in symptomatic suspects: a practical scoring method by Luo, Lin; Luo, Zhendong; Jia, Yizhen; Zhou, Cuiping; He, Jianlong; Lyu, Jianxun; Shen, Xinping is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background Although typical and atypical CT image findings of COVID-19 are reported in current studies, the CT image features of COVID-19 overlap with those of viral pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Hence, it is difficult to make an exclusive diagnosis. ## Methods Thirty confirmed cases of COVID-19 and forty-three cases of other aetiology or clinically confirmed non-COVID-19 in a general hospital were included. The clinical data including age, sex, exposure history, laboratory parameters and aetiological diagnosis of all patients were collected. Seven positive signs (posterior part/lower lobe predilection, bilateral involvement, rounded GGO, subpleural bandlike GGO, crazy-paving pattern, peripheral distribution, and GGO +/− consolidation) from significant COVID-19 CT image features and four negative signs (only one lobe involvement, only central distribution, tree-in-bud sign, and bronchial wall thickening) from other non-COVID-19 pneumonia were used. The scoring analysis of CT features was compared between the two groups (COVID-19 and non-COVID-19). ## Results Older age, symptoms of diarrhoea, exposure history related to Wuhan, and a lower white blood cell and lymphocy

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Author

Luo, Lin; Luo, Zhendong; Jia, Yizhen; Zhou, Cuiping; He, Jianlong; Lyu, Jianxun; Shen, Xinping

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2466)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)