Differential diagnoses of acute ground-glass opacity in chest computed tomography: pictorial essay

• Autor(a) principal: Matos,Marina Justi Rosa de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Rosa,Marcela Emer Egypto, Brito,Vanessa Mizubuti, Amaral,Lucas Tadashi Wada, Beraldo,Gabriel Laverdi, Fonseca,Eduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes, Chate,Rodrigo Caruso, Passos,Rodrigo Bastos Duarte, Silva,Murilo Marques Almeida, Yokoo,Patrícia, Sasdelli Neto,Roberto, Teles,Gustavo Borges da Silva, Silva,Marina Carolina Bueno da, Szarf,Gilberto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Einstein (São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-45082021000100400
• topic: Coronavirus infections; COVID-19; Pandemics; SARS-CoV-2; Thorax/diagnostic imaging; Tomography, X-ray computed; Diagnosis, differential

ABSTRACT Ground-glass opacity is a very frequent and unspecified finding in chest computed tomography. Therefore, it admits a wide range of differential diagnoses in the acute context, from viral pneumonias such as influenza virus, coronavirus disease 2019 and cytomegalovirus and even non-infectious lesions, such as vaping, pulmonary infarction, alveolar hemorrhage and pulmonary edema. For this diagnostic differentiation, ground glass must be correlated with other findings in imaging tests, with laboratory tests and with the patients’ clinical condition. In the context of a pandemic, it is extremely important to remember the other pathologies with similar findings to coronavirus disease 2019 in the imaging exams.