Diagnostic performance of chest computed tomography during the epidemic wave of COVID-19 varied as a function of time since the beginning of the confinement in France.

Samia BoussouarMathilde WagnerVictoria DonciuNicoletta PasiJoe Elie SalemRaphaele Renard-PennaStéphane MarotYonathan FreundAlban RedheuilOlivier Lucidarme

Published in: PloS one (2020)

At the peak of the epidemic, chest CT had sufficiently high sensitivity and PPV to serve as a first-line positive diagnostic tool but at the end of the epidemic wave CT is more useful to exclude COVID-19 pneumonia.

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