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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
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From: Diagnostic performance of chest CT in differentiating COVID-19 from other causes of ground-glass opacities

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COVID-19 and bacterial pneumonia misdiagnosed as COVID-19. a Axial CT image obtained from a 49-year-old man with positive PCR test for COVID-19 shows peripherally located multifocal areas of GGO and superimposed interlobular septal thickening. b Axial CT image obtained for a 38-year-old man with Klebsiella pneumonia shows peripherally located GGO as shown in (a). c Axial CT image obtained from a 67-year-old woman admitted to ICU with positive PCR for COVID-19 and secondary infection by Staphylococcus aureus; axial CT shows bilateral consolidation with small areas of GGO and bronchial dilatation. d Axial CT image from a 72-year-old woman with MRSA pneumonia (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) shows bilateral larger consolidations and GGO than the ones seen on (c)

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