Cannonball appearance, a tricky yet underrated imaging manifestation of COVID-19.
COVID-19
Cannonball appearance
Delta variant
Metastasis
Pneumonia
SARS-CoV-2
Journal
Emergency radiology
ISSN: 1438-1435
Titre abrégé: Emerg Radiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9431227
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Historique:
received:
07
09
2021
accepted:
04
11
2021
pubmed:
15
11
2021
medline:
18
1
2022
entrez:
14
11
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Spreading swiftly across the borders and over the seas, severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2), as causative pathogen of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is currently the main global public health concern. "Cannonball appearance," as a rare and yet underrated CT feature of COVID-19 pneumonia, has been typically linked to certain hematogenous pulmonary metastases and some inflammatory/infection conditions, including tuberculosis, but no other viral or atypical pneumonia. Cannonball appearance can bring diagnostic dilemmas and difficulties in monitoring treatment response in patients with or suspicious for hematogenous pulmonary metastasis. Hereby, we report two cases of COVID-19 delta variant-induced pneumonia manifesting unusually in chest CT scan with cannonball appearance.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34775532
doi: 10.1007/s10140-021-01997-0
pii: 10.1007/s10140-021-01997-0
pmc: PMC8590525
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
35-39Informations de copyright
© 2021. American Society of Emergency Radiology.
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