Open AccessCOVID-19 pneumonia: The first two chest CTs in the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute
Author(s) -
Panyaros Kongpanya,
Parichut Vongthawatchai,
Priyanut Atiburanakul,
Nayot Panitanum,
Patama Suttha
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the asean journal of radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2672-9393
DOI - 10.46475/aseanjr.2020.10
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , pneumonia , coronavirus , lung , infectious disease (medical specialty) , radiology , computed tomography , ground glass opacity , respiratory disease , disease , pathology , adenocarcinoma , cancer , outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), continues to spread rapidly around the world. We reported the first two cases of COVID-19 pneumonia who had the chest computed tomography (CT) performed at the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute (BIDI). The chest CT findings in the two patients with COVID-19 pneumonia showed bilateral lung involvement, multifocal involvement, peripheral distribution, ground glass opacity (GGO), consolidation and GGOwith interlobular septal thickening (“crazy-paving” pattern). The chest CT findings in these patients are nonspecific and overlapped with other diseases.