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World J Clin Cases. Aug 6, 2020; 8(15): 3177-3187
Published online Aug 6, 2020. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i15.3177
Typical and atypical COVID-19 computed tomography findings
Damiano Caruso, Tiziano Polidori, Gisella Guido, Matteo Nicolai, Benedetta Bracci, Antonio Cremona, Marta Zerunian, Michela Polici, Francesco Pucciarelli, Carlotta Rucci, Chiara De Dominicis, Marco Di Girolamo, Giuseppe Argento, Daniela Sergi, Andrea Laghi
Damiano Caruso, Tiziano Polidori, Gisella Guido, Matteo Nicolai, Benedetta Bracci, Antonio Cremona, Marta Zerunian, Michela Polici, Francesco Pucciarelli, Carlotta Rucci, Chiara De Dominicis, Marco Di Girolamo, Giuseppe Argento, Daniela Sergi, Andrea Laghi, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Translational Medicine, “Sapienza”-University of Rome, Sant'Andrea University Hospital, AOU Sant’Andrea, Rome 00189, Italy
Author contributions: Caruso D, Polidori T, Laghi A concepted and designed the research; Polidori T, Guido G, Nicolai M, Bracci B, Zerunian M, Polici M, Pucciarelli F, Rucci C performed the research, the acquisition of images and the literature review; Caruso D, Polidori T, Guido G, Nicolai M, Bracci B, Zerunian M, Polici M, Pucciarelli F, Rucci C, Cremona A, De Dominicis C, Di Girolamo M, Sergi D, Argento G contributed drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; Laghi A has provided the editing and the final approval of the version submitted to the Journal.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There is no conflict of interest associated with any of the senior author or other coauthors contributed their efforts in this manuscript.
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Corresponding author: Andrea Laghi, MD, Doctor, Full Professor, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Translational Medicine, “Sapienza”-University of Rome, Sant'Andrea University Hospital, AOU Sant’Andrea, Via di Grottarossa, 1035-1039, Rome 00189, Italy. andrea.laghi@uniroma1.it
Received: April 26, 2020
Peer-review started: April 26, 2020
First decision: July 3, 2020
Revised: July 10, 2020
Accepted: July 23, 2020
Article in press: July 23, 2020
Published online: August 6, 2020
Core Tip

Core tip: This review makes an effort to summarize typical and atypical chest computed tomography features in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia associated to the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 19. The content of the article will prove to be helpful for readers to recognize the high suspicious chest computed tomography findings in COVID-19 pneumonia.