Early Clinical and CT Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia
Rui Han, Lu Huang, Hong Jiang, Jin Song Dong, Hongfen Peng, Dongyou Zhang
Abstract
The early clinical and laboratory findings of COVID-19 pneumonia are low to midgrade fever, dry cough, and fatigue with normal WBC count, reduced lymphocyte count, and elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein level. The early CT findings are patchy GGO with or without consolidation involving multiple lobes, mainly in the peripheral zone, accompanied by halo sign, vascular thickening, crazy paving pattern, or air bronchogram sign.
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