Round Pneumonia Management in COVID-19 Patient

Abstract

Round pneumonia is an infrequent entity in the adult population. Its clinical presentation and radiological features resemble to malignant tumoral lesions very much; therefore, it is often misdiagnosed as being malignant in nature. In patients with solitary pulmonary nodules, especially when clinical findings of pneumonia are present, plain radiography or computed tomography of the chest should be repeated after the treatment and follow-up time should be extended. Although radiological findings of Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia have been described, it should be kept in mind that other respiratory tract infections may be observed in these patients as a co-infection to COVID-19.

Keywords

• pneumonia
• viral pneumonia
• covid-19
• neoplasms
• computed tomography