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  • PURPOSE: CT imaging has been a detrimental tool in the diagnosis of COVID-19, but it has not been studied thoroughly in pediatric patients and its role in diagnosing COVID-19. METHODS: 27 pediatric patients with COVID-19 pneumonia were included. CT examination and molecular assay tests were performed from all participants. A standard checklist was utilized to extract information, and two radiologists separately reviewed the CT images. RESULTS: The mean age of patients was 4.7 ± 4.16 (mean ± SD) years. Seventeen patients were female, and ten were male. The most common imaging finding was ground-glass opacities followed by consolidations. Seven patients had a single area of involvement, five patients had multiple areas of involvement, and four patients had diffuse involvement. The sensitivity of CT imaging in diagnosing infections was 66.67%. Also, some uncommon imaging findings were seen, such as a tree-in-bud and lung collapse. CONCLUSION: CT imaging shows less involvement in pediatric compared to adult patients, due to pediatric patients having a milder form of the disease. CT imaging also has a lower sensitivity in detecting abnormal lungs compared to adult patients. The most common imaging findings are ground-glass opacities and consolidations, but other non-common imaging findings also exist.
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  • 10.1007/s11604-020-01003-6
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?:journal
  • Jpn_J_Radiol
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  • no-cc
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/371a1bf046f41e0efada34a6358be33244c70766.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7293432.xml.json
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  • 32535725.0
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  • Medline; PMC
?:title
  • Clinical and radiological characteristics of pediatric patients with COVID-19: focus on imaging findings
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  • 2020-06-13

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