Table 1.
Patient demographic, clinical, and imaging data
Demographics | |
Age | 60 mean (SD + 17); range 30–96 |
Males/females | 22 M (59%): 15 F (41%) |
Symptoms | |
Fever | 13 (35%) |
Respiratory symptoms | 26 (70%) |
Gastrointestinal symptoms | 5 (14%) |
Neuro CT indications | |
Stroke | 16 (43%) |
Trauma | 14 (19%) |
Neck pain | 7 (19%) |
Type of CT imaging | |
CTA neck | 22 (59%) |
NECT cervical spine | 8 (22%) |
CECT neck | 7 (19%) |
Lung findings on CT | |
Absent lung findings | 10 (29%) |
Present lung findings | 24 (71%) |
Ground-glass opacities | 22 (67%) |
Consolidation | 14 (42%) |
Crazy-paving | 3 (9%) |
Temporal relationship of neck CTs | |
CT before RT-PCR results | 17 (46%) |
CT after RT-PCR results | 20 (54%) |
Neck CT concurrent with chest CT | 21 (57%) |
Neck CT before chest CT | 13 (37%) |
Neck CT after chest CT | 3 (8%) |
SD standard deviation, M males, F females, CTA CT angiogram, NECT non-contrast CT, CECT contrast-enhanced CT, RT-PCR reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction