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Wuhan - Radiological findings

A study in Wuhan looking at radiological findings only in COVID-19 patients [6].

They managed to get 81 patients which are divided into four groups:

· Group 1- patients who are actually asymptomatic

· Group 2- patients with the symptom onset less than seven days

· Group 3 – patients who have symptom onset one to two weeks and

· Group 4 – patients who have symptom onset more than two weeks.

So, what they have found on the CT scan based on the group 1, 2,3 and 4?

Diagram 8: Radiological findings from 81 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in
Wuhan, China by Heishui Shi et al.

A. Picture A is a lung CT scan from Group 1. There is focal ground glass
opacity associated with very smooth intralobular septa at the beginning

and this is at the right lower lobe. It is very focal. So, it is not bilateral
infiltrates of the lung because this is an asymptomatic patient. Although

asymptomatic, they still have some lung findings on CT scan.