Marando, Marco and Tamburello, Adriana and Gianella, Pietro (2020) False-Negative Nasopharyngeal Swab RT-PCR Assays in Typical COVID-19: Role of Ultra-low-dose Chest CT and Bronchoscopy in Diagnosis. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (5). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
On 11 March 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic and global health emergency. We describe the clinical features and role of ultra-low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) and bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In our patient, who was highly suggestive clinically and radiologically for COVID-19, we had two false-negative results for nasopharyngeal and oral swab reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Eventually, we confirmed the diagnosis using bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Coronavirus, COVID-19, RT-PCR, ultra-low-dose chest CT, bronchoscopy |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2020 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2020 13:59 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20047 |
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