Diagnostic performance of chest CT to differentiate COVID-19 pneumonia in non-high-epidemic area in Japan

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 38 - Trang 400-406 - 2020
Yuki Himoto1, Akihiko Sakata1, Mitsuhiro Kirita1, Takashi Hiroi1, Ken-ichiro Kobayashi2, Kenji Kubo2, Hyunjin Kim1, Azusa Nishimoto1, Chikara Maeda1, Akira Kawamura1, Nobuhiro Komiya2, Shigeaki Umeoka1
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan
2Department of Infectious Diseases, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan

Tóm tắt

To evaluate the diagnostic performance of chest CT to differentiate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia in non-high-epidemic area in Japan. This retrospective study included 21 patients clinically suspected COVID-19 pneumonia and underwent chest CT more than 3 days after the symptom onset: six patients confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and 15 patients proved uninfected. Using a Likert scale and its receiver operating characteristic curve analysis, two radiologists (R1/R2) evaluated the diagnostic performance of the five CT criteria: (1) ground glass opacity (GGO)-predominant lesions, (2) GGO- and peripheral-predominant lesions, (3) bilateral GGO-predominant lesions; (4) bilateral GGO- and peripheral-predominant lesions, and (5) bilateral GGO- and peripheral-predominant lesions without nodules, airway abnormalities, pleural effusion, and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. All patients confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia had bilateral GGO- and peripheral-predominant lesions without airway abnormalities, mediastinal lymphadenopathy, and pleural effusion. The five CT criteria showed moderate to excellent diagnostic performance with area under the curves (AUCs) ranging 0.77–0.88 for R1 and 0.78–0.92 for R2. The criterion (e) showed the highest AUC. Chest CT would play a supplemental role to differentiate COVID-19 pneumonia from other respiratory diseases presenting with similar symptoms in a clinical setting.

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