Chest-CT mimics of COVID-19 pneumonia-a review article.
Eleonora CarlicchiPietro GemmaAntonio PoerioAntonella CaminatiAngelo VanzulliMaurizio ZompatoriPublished in: Emergency radiology (2021)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in early December 2019 in China, as an acute lower respiratory tract infection and spread rapidly worldwide being declared a pandemic in March 2020. Chest-computed tomography (CT) has been utilized in different clinical settings of COVID-19 patients; however, COVID-19 imaging appearance is highly variable and nonspecific. Indeed, many pulmonary infections and non-infectious diseases can show similar CT findings and mimic COVID-19 pneumonia. In this review, we discuss clinical conditions that share a similar imaging appearance with COVID-19 pneumonia, in order to identify imaging and clinical characteristics useful in the differential diagnosis.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- computed tomography
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- dual energy
- high resolution
- image quality
- contrast enhanced
- positron emission tomography
- respiratory tract
- infectious diseases
- respiratory failure
- magnetic resonance imaging
- pulmonary hypertension
- liver failure
- drug induced
- mass spectrometry