COVID-19: A review of what radiologists need to know.

COVID-19: A review of what radiologists need to know.

Lei Tang, Yi Wang, Yun Zhang, Xiao-Yong Zhang, Xian-Chun Zeng, Bin Song

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is spreading throughout the world. Chest radiography and computed tomography play an important role in disease diagnosis, differential diagnosis, severity evaluation, prognosis prediction, therapeutic effects assessment and follow-up of patients with COVID-19. In this review, we summarize knowledge of COVID-19 pneumonia that may help improve the abilities of radiologists to diagnose and evaluate this highly infectious disease, which is essential for epidemic control and preventing new outbreaks in the short term.

2020

Diagnosis, pneumonia, lung, Coronavirus infection, radiology

10.12998/wjcc.v8.i22.5501

World journal of clinical cases