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Radiologically Suspected Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient Recovering from COVID-19: A Case Report.

Hyeonji SeoSung-Han KimMin Jae KimSe Jin JangSung Han Kim
Published in: Infection & chemotherapy (2021)
We report a case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated radiologically suspected organizing pneumonia with repeated negative Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results from nasopharyngeal swab and sputum samples, but positive result from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. Performing SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR in upper respiratory tract samples only could fail to detect COVID-19-associated pneumonia, and SARS-CoV-2 could be an etiology of radiologically suspected organizing pneumonia.
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