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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Fig. 5 | Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

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From: COVID-19 in Egypt after a year: the first and second pandemic waves from the radiological point of view; multi-center comparative study on 2000 patients

Fig. 5

COVID-19 infection atypically presented by head-cheese pattern (ground-glass attenuation alternating with air trapping): a 48-year-old female COVID-19 patient. A Initial axial chest CT (lung window) revealed multiple sub-pleural ground glass patches (orange arrows) of COVID-19 infection with a nearby medial basal area of air trapping (green circle) … “Head-cheese pattern.” B Follow up axial chest CT after 3 weeks (lung window) revealed healing of the ground-glass patches by curvilinear fibrotic bands (blue arrow) with persistent areas of air trapping

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