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authors: Aggarwal, Ankita; Bagri, Neha
title: Letter to Editor in response to Chest CT in COVID-19 patients: Structured vs conventional reporting
date: 2021-06-07
journal: Eur J Radiol
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.109814
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The structured report used in this survey lays importance to the pattern of disease and the final report goes as typical or atypical COVID findings. In an already diagnosed case of COVID 19, the Fleishner Society advocates the use of CT in cases of worsening disease [2] . In such cases, CT scan can assess the severity of the disease, look for complications and assess the therapeutic response/follow up. It J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f would be worthwhile to separately describe the vascular findings as fairly high incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism has been since associated with COVID-19 pneumonia [3] . Also, mention of other complications like pulmonary edema, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, signs of secondary bacterial or fungal infection/sepsis etc can be done. Comparison from previous CT, if any, should be done to evaluate worsening or improving trend. Final report should go typical/atypical COVID with severity scoring with presence /absence of complications followed by worsening or improving trend (depending on the availability of previous CT scan).

We firmly believe that SRs will soon replace the CRs as it has done in other fields like breast, thyroid, prostate etc. Once again, we commend the authors for their work on this popular topic of interest.

We have no conflicts of interest.

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