Key result
Chest CT and RT-PCR diagnose concurrent COVID-19 and pneumothorax in a young symptomatic patient.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the role of chest CT in diagnosing concurrent COVID-19 and pneumothorax in a young patient.
Chest CT may detect concurrent pneumothorax in young COVID-19 patients with referred pain; leaves open broader prevalence and causality.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has spread all over the world in a short time and was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). During COVID-19 pandemic, chest computed tomography (CT) imaging has become an important tool with high sensitivity for diagnosis due to the low positive rate of the real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Furthermore, the chest CT has played an important role in the diagnosis of underlying pulmonary lesions. In this case report, we present a patient who was admitted to the emergency department with fever, cough and left shoulder pain, and was subsequently diagnosed with both COVID-19 and pneumothorax following chest CT and RT-PCR test.
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Gürkan et al. (2020) conducted a case report in COVID-19 and pneumothorax (n=1). Chest CT and RT-PCR was evaluated on Diagnosis of COVID-19 and pneumothorax. A young patient presenting with fever, cough, and left shoulder pain was diagnosed with concurrent COVID-19 and pneumothorax using chest CT and RT-PCR.
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