Pulmonary Contusion Similar to COVID-19 Pneumonia
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- 1Department of Trauma Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon,
- 2Department of Traumatology, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon,
- KMID: 2504397
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.20408/jti.2020.0014
Abstract
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread across the world and caused a pandemic. It can be transmitted by an infected person or an asymptomatic carrier and is a highly contagious disease. Prevention and early identification of COVID-19 are important to minimize the transmission of COVID-19. Chest computed tomography (CT) has a high sensitivity for detecting COVID-19, but relatively low specificity. Therefore, chest CT may be difficult to distinguish COVID-19 findings from those of other infectious (notably viral types of pneumonia) or noninfectious disease. Pulmonary contusion has also a lot of similarities on chest CT with COVID-19 pneumonia. We present trauma patients with pulmonary contusion whose CT scans showed findings similar to those of COVID-19, and we report our experience in the management of trauma patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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