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Chest X-ray in the emergency department during COVID-19 pandemic descending phase in Italy: correlation with patients' outcome.

Chiara MoroniDiletta CozziMarco AlbanesiEdoardo CavigliAlessandra BindiSilvia LuvaràSimone BusoniLorenzo Nicola MazzoniStefano GrifoniPeiman NazerianVittorio Miele
Published in: La Radiologia medica (2021)
In our study, admission CXR showed a fair specificity and a good correlation with patients' outcome. GGO and others CXR findings showed a good correlation with COVID-19 diagnosis; besides GGO a diffuse or bibasal distribution resulted in independent variables highly suggestive for COVID-19 infection thus enabling radiologists to signal to clinicians radiologically suspect patients during the pandemic descending phase.
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