Kheiralla Osama Abdalla Mabrouk, Tajaldeen Abdulrahman Amin, Bakheet Adel Osman
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Radiological Sciences Department, Saudi Arabia.
Eur J Radiol Open. 2020;7:100277. doi: 10.1016/j.ejro.2020.100277. Epub 2020 Oct 12.
Since the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) infection in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital Hubei province, central of China, more than 4 million people have contracted the virus worldwide. Despite the imposed precautions, coronavirus disease-19 is rapidly spreading with human-to-human transmission resulting in more than 290,000 death as of May 13, 2020 according to World Health Organization (WHO). The aim of this study was to revise the characteristic imaging features of Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) during their outbreak, and to compare them with that of COVID-19, to familiarize radiologists with the imaging spectrum of corona-virus syndromes. This study will help in more understanding and characterisation of COVID-19 to support the global efforts in combating its worldwide outbreak.
自2019年12月中国中部湖北省省会武汉爆发新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）感染以来，全球已有超过400万人感染该病毒。尽管采取了预防措施，但根据世界卫生组织（WHO）的数据，截至2020年5月13日，新型冠状病毒肺炎仍在迅速传播，通过人际传播导致超过29万人死亡。本研究的目的是回顾严重急性呼吸综合征（SARS）和中东呼吸综合征（MERS）爆发期间的特征性影像学表现，并将其与COVID-19的影像学表现进行比较，以使放射科医生熟悉冠状病毒综合征的影像谱。本研究将有助于更深入地了解和表征COVID-19，以支持全球抗击其全球爆发的努力。
