Diagnostic Performance of CT and Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction for Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Meta-Analysis
Hyungjin Kim, Hyunsook Hong, Soon Ho Yoon
Abstract
= .01). Conclusion Outside of China where there is a low prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (range, 1%-22.9%), chest CT screening of patients with suspected disease had low positive predictive value (range, 1.5%-30.7%). © RSNA, 2020
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