Pulmonary Contusion Similar to COVID-19 Pneumonia

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread across the world and caused a pandemic It can be transmitted by an infected person or an asymptomatic carrier and is a highly contagious disease Prevention and early identification of COVID-19 are important to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 Chest computed tomography (CT) has a high sensitivity for detecting COVID-19, but relatively low specificity Therefore, chest CT may be difficult to distinguish COVID-19 findings from those of other infectious (notably viral types of pneumonia) or noninfectious disease Pulmonary contusion has also a lot of similarities on chest CT with COVID-19 pneumonia We present trauma patients with pulmonary contusion whose CT scans showed findings similar to those of COVID-19, and we report our experience in the management of trauma patients during the COVID-19 pandemic