Highlighting COVID-19:What the imaging exams show about the disease

作     者：Lorena Sousa de Carvalho Ronaldo Teixeira da Silva Júnior Bruna Vieira Silva Oliveira Yasmin Silva de Miranda Nara Lúcia Fonseca Rebouças Matheus Sande Loureiro Samuel Luca Rocha Pinheiro Regiane Santos da Silva Paulo Victor Silva Lima Medrado Correia Maria José Souza Silva Sabrina Neves Ribeiro Filipe Antônio França da Silva Breno Bittencourt de Brito Maria Luísa Cordeiro Santos Rafael Augusto Oliveira Sodré Leal Márcio Vasconcelos Oliveira Fabrício Freire de Melo 

作者机构：Department of Instituto Multidisciplinar em SaúdeUniversidade Federal da BahiaVitória da Conquista 45029-094BahiaBrazil 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Radiology》 (世界放射学杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第13卷第5期

页      面：122-136页

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 100207[医学-影像医学与核医学] 1006[医学-中西医结合] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 08[工学] 1010[医学-医学技术（可授医学、理学学位）] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 100106[医学-放射医学] 10[医学] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 

主　　题：SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Pneumonia Pandemic Radiology Tomography 

摘      要：Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19),a global emergency,is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus *** gold standard for its diagnosis is the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction,but considering the high number of infected people,the low availability of this diagnostic tool in some contexts,and the limitations of the test,other tools that aid in the identification of the disease are *** this scenario,imaging exams such as chest X-ray(CXR)and computed tomography(CT)have played important *** is useful for assessing disease progression because it allows the detection of extensive consolidations,besides being a fast and cheap *** the other hand,CT is more sensitive for detecting lung changes in the early stages of the disease and is also useful for assessing disease *** note,ground-glass opacities are the main COVID-19-related CT *** emission tomography combined with CT can be used to evaluate chronic and substantial damage to the lungs and other organs;however,it is an expensive *** ultrasound(LUS)has been shown to be a promising technique in that context as well,being useful in the screening and monitoring of patients,disease classification,and management related to mechanical ***,LUS is an inexpensive alternative available at the ***,magnetic resonance imaging,although not usually requested,allows the detection of pulmonary,cardiovascular,and neurological abnormalities associated with ***,it is important to consider the challenges faced in the radiology field in the adoption of control measures to prevent infection and in the follow-up of post-COVID-19 patients.