Role of Chest Computed Tomography versus Real Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction for Diagnosis of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Dina M Ali Lamiaa G Zake Nevine K El Kady

Published in: Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases (2021)

Chest computed tomography is playing a key role for diagnosis and detection of COVID-19 infection. Computed tomography image findings may precede the initially positive RT-PCR assay.

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