Spectrum of CT-Scan Findings in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients of SARS-CoV-2 Disease: An African Series

Abstract

In this paper, we studied retrospectively the Chest CT-scan chest of 118 SARS-CoV-2 disease cases confirmed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). We identified and characterized the most common CT findings, and compared such findings in the asymptomatic patients with those patients that presented with findings in patients with mild form of the disease. Bilateral pulmonary parenchyma ground-glass and consolidative pulmonary opacities, sometimes with a rounded morphology and a peripheral lung distribution were the most common CT findings. These were often associated with reticular and crazy paving pattern. Pleural and pericardial effusions were rare and mainly present in diffuse lung involvement. Most of our patient showed minimal lung involvement. There was no statistical significant difference in CT findings between asymptomatic patients and those with mild symptoms.