Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in early December 2019 in China, as an acute lower respiratory tract infection and spread rapidly worldwide being declared a pandemic in March 2020. Chest-computed tomography (CT) has been utilized in different clinical settings of COVID-19 patients; however, COVID-19 imaging appearance is highly variable and nonspecific. Indeed, many pulmonary infections and non-infectious diseases can show similar CT findings and mimic COVID-19 pneumonia. In this review, we discuss clinical conditions that share a similar imaging appearance with COVID-19 pneumonia, in order to identify imaging and clinical characteristics useful in the differential diagnosis.
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【저자키워드】 COVID-19 pneumonia, differential diagnosis, chest HRCT, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19, Coronavirus disease 2019, pandemic, Clinical characteristics, Pneumonia, Infection, tomography, Spread, China, Pulmonary infection, Lower respiratory tract, clinical setting, clinical condition, non-infectious disease, identify, CT finding, nonspecific, with COVID-19, 【제목키워드】 COVID-19,
【저자키워드】 COVID-19 pneumonia, differential diagnosis, chest HRCT, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19, Coronavirus disease 2019, pandemic, Clinical characteristics, Pneumonia, Infection, tomography, Spread, China, Pulmonary infection, Lower respiratory tract, clinical setting, clinical condition, non-infectious disease, identify, CT finding, nonspecific, with COVID-19, 【제목키워드】 COVID-19,