Investigating of the role of CT scan for cancer patients during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Amidst this current COVID-19 pandemic, we undertook this systematic review to determine the role of medical imaging, with a special emphasis on computed tomography (CT), on guiding the care and management of oncologic patients.

Material and methods

Study selection focused on articles from 01/02/2020 to 04/23/2020. After removal of irrelevant articles, all systematic or non-systematic reviews, comments, correspondence, editorials, guidelines and meta-analysis and case reports with less than 5 patients were also excluded. Full-text articles of eligible publications were reviewed to select all imaging-based publications, and the existence or not of an oncologic population was reported for each publication. Two independent reviewers collected the following informati

SUBMITTER: Bourdoncle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970534 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature