Affiliation for all authors: Hitit University, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Çorum, Turkey.
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2020, 06(02), 068-071
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2020.6.2.0115
DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2020.6.2.0115
Received on 21 April 2020; revised on 04 May 2020; accepted on 09 May 2020
In December 2019, a series of pneumonia cases of unknown origin were determined in Wuhan, China. The disease, then, was named as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and subsequently as COVID-19 officially by the World Health Organization (WHO). Its characteristics such as high infectivity and mortality makes COVID-19 a serious public health problem. It causes consumption of sources in healthcare facilities dealing with the disease. In this case report, we present you a patient admitted to our Emergency Department due to multiple trauma and whose computed tomography findings were confused with COVID-19 pneumonia.
COVID-19; trauma; lung contusion; pneumonia
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Erenler AK , Korkmaz Ü and Ergün EC. Lung contusion mimicking COVID-19 pneumonia: A case report. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2020, 06(02), 068-071. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2020.6.2.0115
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