Chest CT Shows Lung Abnormalities Two Years after COVID (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Chest CT Shows Lung Abnormalities Two Years after COVID

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Serial transverse CT scans in a 39-year-old man with moderate COVID-19. (A) CT scan obtained on day 18 after onset of symptoms showed diffuse ground-glass opacities (GGOs, arrowhead) bilaterally combined with consolidation (*) in the right lower lobe. (B) Image obtained at 6-month follow up showed only subtle residual subpleural GGOs and linear opacities (arrows). (C) Image obtained at 12-month follow up showed further partial resorption of the residual GGOs and linear opacities (arrows). (D) Image obtained at 2-year follow up showed complete resolution of the abnormalities. This man was asymptomatic and had normal lung diffusion function at 2-year follow up.

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