Correlation between clinical classification of COVID-19 and imaging characteristics of MSCT volume scanning of the lungs

• Published in: Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 321 - 326
• Main Authors: Guo, Fei, Zhu, Lin, Xu, Hong, Qin, Lei, Liang, Xiaohan, Deng, Xuefei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 30.03.2020
• Subjects: Aged; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus Infections - diagnostic imaging; COVID-19; Humans; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral - diagnostic imaging; Retrospective Studies; SARS-CoV-2; Tomography, Spiral Computed; COVID-19; computed tomography; clinical classification; volume scanning
• ISSN: 1673-4254
• DOI: 10.12122/j.issn.1673-4254.2020.03.04

To investigate the correlation between the clinical classification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the imaging characteristics of multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) volume scanning of the lungs. The clinical data and thoracic MSCT volume scanning data were analyzed retrospectively for 102 patients with COVID-19 diagnosed and hospitalized in the First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College between January 18 and February 26, 2020. According to the Fifth Edition of the Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines by the National Health Commission, the patients were divided into common type, severe type and critical type. The imaging characteristics including the lung sides of the lesions, lung segment involved, lesion distribution, and lesion number and density were compared among the patients with different clinical types of COVID-19. Seventy-seven of the patients had common type, 18 had severe type and 7 had critical type of COVID-19. The main clinical manifestations included fever, cough an