Asymptomatic novel coronavirus pneumonia patient outside Wuhan: The value of CT images in the course of the disease

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 63, Issue , 2020, Pages 7-9

  Lin, Chen ^a,b,c   Ding, Yuxiao ^a,b   Xie, Bin ^a,b   Sun, Zhujian ^a,b   Li, Xiaogang ^a,b   Chen, Zixian ^c   Niu, Meng ^c  

^a Clinical Laboratory   (China)

^b Gansu Provincial Cancer Hospital   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2019 nCoV; COVID 19; Ground glass opacities; Novel coronavirus pneumonia; Pleural effusion

Indexed keywords

2019-NCOV; CORONAVIRUSES; COVID-19; GROUND-GLASS OPACITY; PLEURAL EFFUSION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERFERON; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DYSPNEA; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG LESION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PANDEMIC; VIROLOGY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85080037652     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2020.02.008     Document Type: Article

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