Correlation of Chest CT and RT-PCR Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: A Report of 1014 Cases

• Published in: Radiology Vol. 296; no. 2; p. E32
• Main Authors: Ai, Tao, Yang, Zhenlu, Hou, Hongyan, Zhan, Chenao, Chen, Chong, Lv, Wenzhi, Tao, Qian, Sun, Ziyong, Xia, Liming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Radiological Society of North America 01.08.2020
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Betacoronavirus; Child; Child, Preschool; China; Clinical Laboratory Techniques - methods; Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis; Coronavirus Infections - diagnostic imaging; COVID-19; COVID-19 Testing; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Original Research; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral - diagnosis; Pneumonia, Viral - diagnostic imaging; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; SARS-CoV-2; Sensitivity and Specificity; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods; Young Adult; China

Background Chest CT is used in the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is an important complement to reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests. Purpose To investigate the diagnostic value and consistency of chest CT as compared with RT-PCR assay in COVID-19. Mat...