Clinical Value of COVID-19 Chest Radiography and High-Resolution CT Examination

Title:Clinical Value of COVID-19 Chest Radiography and High-Resolution CT Examination

Volume: 18

Author(s): Dan Wang, Yalei Shang, Yuehua Chen, Jianguo Xia, Weizhong Tian*, Tao Zhang*, Hui Dai*Yonggang Li*

Affiliation:

• Department of Radiology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Hospital Affiliated 5 to Nantong University, Taizhou, 225300, China

• Department of Radiology, The Third Hospital Affiliated of Nantong University, Nantong, 226000, China

• Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China

• Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, chest X-ray (CXR), CT, consistency, clinical value.

Abstract:

Background: Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia remains a matter of concern. Chest CT findings of COVID-19 pneumonia have been reported widely, while there is relatively rare research on chest X-ray (CXR).

Objective: The study was aimed to compare the CXR and chest CT findings of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection and to explore their respective clinical values.

Methods: 28 inpatients with COVID-19 pneumonia who underwent both CXR and CT were included. The pulmonary manifestations of the lesions were recorded. Ground-glass opacity (GGO), consolidation, and fibrosis were quantified in CXR and chest CT separately. Consistency was analyzed using Fleiss' kappa and intraclass correlation coefficient. The stages of the disease in CXR and chest CT were evaluated.

Results: Approximately 67.9% (19/28) of subjects had abnormal findings on CXR. The common manifestations in CXR were ground-glass opacities (GGO) (100%, 19/19) and consolidation (68.4%, 13/19). 92.9% (26/28) of patients had abnormal manifestations on CT. The common manifestations in CT were GGO (88.5%, 23/26), consolidation (69.2%, 18/26), reticular opacity (69.2%, 18/26) and nodule (46.2%, 12/26). Among the abnormalities between CXR and CT, only consolidation was consistent (κ=0.510). GGO (ICC=0.501) and consolidation (ICC=0.431) scores were consistent in CXR and chest CT. The results of staging were the same in 14 cases, most of them were in stage I and stage II. While in other cases with inconsistent results, CT was more advanced in the disease stage than CXR, mainly stage III and stage IV.

Conclusion: CXR is helpful to observe the change of the pulmonary lesions in patients with confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia. CT can be used for early diagnosis and staging of lesions.

Cite this article as:

Wang Dan, Shang Yalei, Chen Yuehua, Xia Jianguo, Tian Weizhong*, Zhang Tao*, Dai Hui*, Li Yonggang*, Clinical Value of COVID-19 Chest Radiography and High-Resolution CT Examination, Current Medical Imaging 2022; 18 (7) : e291221199614 . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573405618666211229143121

DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573405618666211229143121	Print ISSN 1573-4056
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher	Online ISSN 1875-6603