Diagnosis of COVID-19 in Patients with Negative Nasopharyngeal Swabs: Reliability of Radiological and Clinical Diagnosis and Accuracy Versus Serology.

Antonio MirijelloMichele ZarrelliGiuseppe MiscioAngela de MatthaeisPamela PiscitelliCristiano Matteo CarbonelliAnnabella Di GiorgioMichele IngleseGianluca Libero CilibertiCarmen MarcianoCristina BorelliDoriana VergaraGiulia CastoraniGrazia Vittoria OrciuloLazzaro Di MauroMassimo CarellaAnnalisa SimeoneMassimiliano CopettiMaurizio Angelo LeoneSalvatore De Cosmonull The Css-Covid-Group

Published in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)

The radiologic and clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 for swab-negative patients proved to be sufficiently reliable and accurate to allow a diagnosis of COVID-19, which needs to be confirmed by serology and follow-up.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
high resolution
respiratory syndrome coronavirus