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CT Scanning in Suspected Stroke or Head Trauma: Is It Worth Going the Extra Mile and Including the Chest to Screen for COVID-19 Infection? AJNR 41:1165-1169, Kwee, R.M.,et al, 2020 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The sensitivity of additional chest CT is fairly high. However, a negative result does not exclude COVID-19. The positive predictive value is poor. Correlation of chest CT results with epidemiologic history and clinical presentation, along with real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, is needed for confirmation.

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