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authors: Schmitt, Willian; Marchiori, Edson
title: Covid-19: round and oval areas of ground-glass opacity
date: 2020-05-14
journal: Pulmonology
DOI: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2020.04.011
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doc_id: 24782
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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to express.

The World Health Organization has classified the COVID-19 situation as a pandemic.

Patients infected with COVID-19 typically present with fever, cough, dyspnea, and myalgia, and the infection may cause severe pneumonia. Laboratory findings are unspecific. Although test results are normal for many patients, the predominant laboratory abnormalities include the elevation of inflammatory markers, such as C-reactive protein, lactate dehydrogenase, and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Additionally, lymphopenia is consistently present in more than 40% of patients [1-3]. Currently, realtime reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction is the reference standard test for the definitive diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. 

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