einstein (São Paulo). 03/Dec/2021;19:eAI6564.
COVID-19 pneumonia and target sign
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2021AI6564
A 49-year-old man came to our emergency department with a 2-day history of fever, cough, anosmia, ageusia and odynophagia. His past medical history included hypertension. At the time of this presentation, chest computed tomography revealed peripheral and bilateral ground-glass opacities, with some visible intralobular lines – typical findings of pneumonia caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In addition, some findings revealed the target sign (). The patient’s supportive treatment was continued, and reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed the infection by SARS-CoV-2.
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COVID-19 pneumonia and target sign
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