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cord-298600-cnolne6k	Majeed, Talal	The Role of the Computed Tomography (CT) Thorax in the Diagnosis of COVID-19 for Patients Presenting with Acute Surgical Emergencies. A Single Institute Experience	2020-10-20		.txt	text/plain	3221	164	48	Our aim was to determine the diagnostic accuracy in terms of sensitivity and specificity of CT chest in diagnosing and confirming COVID-19 infection in patients presenting with acute surgical and medical pathologies. Patients admitted for acute surgical emergencies were treated according to RCS guidelines and subjected to RT-PCR test and/or CT scan of the thorax. Patients admitted for acute surgical emergencies were treated according to RCS guidelines and subjected to RT-PCR test and/or CT scan of the thorax. CT imaging was found to have a high false positive rate making it an unreliable tool for a definitive diagnosis in the presence of concomitant respiratory pathologies, but with a strong negative predictive value at 82.4% makes it a useful tool for the exclusion of COVID-19 infection and can be helpful in surgical decision making for asymptomatic patients (Table 1 ).In our study, more than 70% of all acute surgical presentations which are normally treated surgically were treated conservatively with good outcome.	./cache/cord-298600-cnolne6k.txt	./txt/cord-298600-cnolne6k.txt