Imaging Features of COVID-19 in Elder People
It has been generally reported that elderly individuals, especially those with underlying disease, are most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection. After being infected with SARS-CoV-2, elderly patients, typically aged over 65, are more prone to severe sympto
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Diagnostic Imaging of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia
Minming Zhang • Bin Lin Editors
Diagnostic Imaging of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia
Editors Minming Zhang Department of Radiology The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine Hangzhou China
Bin Lin Department of Radiology The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine Hangzhou China
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Preface
Since December 2019, there has been an outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic across the world, and now the number of people who have been infected with this disease has exceeded 10 million and more than 500 thousand of them have died. Chest CT examination may help to find pulmonary lesions, and the characteristic imaging manifestations of CT may give us an indication of the infectious agents of the pneumonia; therefore, chest CT examination plays a positive role in isolating the suspected patients as early as possible in the process of preventing and controlling the disease. In addition, chest CT examination has important effects in predicting the outcome of the disease, evaluating the therapeutic effect, and identifying the mixed infection and complications. In the epidemic prevention and control, radiologists of China have played a
