Role of portable chest radiography in management of COVID-19: Experience of 422 patients from a tertiary care center in India

Conclusion: The presence of multifocal air-space opacities with bilateral, peripheral distribution on chest radiograph is highly suggestive of COVID-19 pneumonia in this pandemic setting.Portable chest radiography is a widely available and quicktool for estimating the evolution and assessing the severity of lung involvement of COVID-19 pneumonia in hospitalized symptomatic patients.

Source: Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging - January 23, 2021 Category: Radiology Authors: Alka Goyal Raghav Tiwari Meenu Bagarhatta B Ashwini Bhavyansh Rathi Sudhir Bhandari Source Type: research