Pediatric COVID-19: Correlations between Clinical and Imaging Perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although SARS-CoV-2 infection primarily affects adults, the increasing emergence of infected pediatric patients has been recently reported. However, there is a paucity of data regarding the value of imaging in relation to the clinical severity of this pandemic emergency.

Objectives

To demonstrate the relationships between clinical and radiological COVID-19 findings and to determine the most effective standardized pediatric clinical and imaging strategies predicting the disease severity. Patients and Methods. This observational study enrolled eighty pediatric patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection. The studied patients were categorized according to the disease severity and the presence of comorbidities. Patients' clinical findings, chest X-ray, and CT im

SUBMITTER: Ali HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171977 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature