CT imaging of one extended family cluster of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) including adolescent patients and "silent infection"

Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 800-804

  Xu, Rui ^a   Du, Mingshan ^b   Li, Linfeng ^c   Zhen, Zhiming ^b   Wang, Huiyou ^c   Hu, Xiaofei ^b  

^a GUIZHOU PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Panzhou People s Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR;

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; COUGHING; EXTENDED FAMILY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENCE QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; PLEURA THICKENING; SCHOOL CHILD; SORE THROAT; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85082678996     PISSN: 22234292     EISSN: 22234306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/QIMS.2020.02.13     Document Type: Letter

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