COVID‐19 pneumonia and an indelible ground‐glass nodule

Sumitaka Yamanaka; Shinichiro Ota; Yukihiro Yoshida; Masaharu Shinkai

doi:10.1002/rcr2.751

Respirology Case Reports (May 2021)

COVID‐19 pneumonia and an indelible ground‐glass nodule

Sumitaka Yamanaka,
Shinichiro Ota,
Yukihiro Yoshida,
Masaharu Shinkai

Affiliations

Sumitaka Yamanaka: Department of Thoracic Surgery Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital Tokyo Japan
Shinichiro Ota: Department of Respirology Medicine Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital Tokyo Japan
Yukihiro Yoshida: Department of Thoracic Surgery National Cancer Center Hospital Tokyo Japan
Masaharu Shinkai: Department of Respirology Medicine Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital Tokyo Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.751
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 5
pp. n/a – n/a

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Key message When a chest computed tomography (CT) scan is performed in the diagnosis and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pneumonia, the possibility of lung neoplasm should be kept in mind if the ground‐glass nodule (GGN) shows features that are non‐specific for viral infection, such as solitary nature, relative roundness, well‐defined borders, and distance from the pleura.

Published in Respirology Case Reports

ISSN: 2051-3380 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20513380

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