Table 2.
- CT qualitative finding in different clinical groups.
| CT features | Groups (N=213) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home-discharge (n=123) | Hospitalized (n=58) | ICU (n=32) | P | |
| Distribution | ||||
| Bilateral | 92(74.8%) | 52(89.7%) | 32(100%) | 0.001a |
| Only peripheral involved | 71(57.72%) | 19(32.75%) | 2(6.25%) | < 0.001a |
| Only central involved | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | - |
| Both peripheral and central | 52(42.27%) | 39(67.24%) | 30(96.75%) | < 0.001a |
| Single lesion | 8(6.5%) | 1(1.7%) | 0(0%) | 0.143 |
| Multiple lesions | 115(93.5%) | 57(98.3%) | 32(100%) | |
| Type of opacities (Patterns) | ||||
| Consolidation | 35(28.5%) | 39(67.2%) | 32(100%) | < 0.001a |
| Crazy paving | 23(18.69%) | 23(39.65%) | 23(71.87%) | < 0.001a |
| Ground-glass opacities | 118(95.93%) | 58(100%) | 32(100%) | 0.061 |
| Opacities morphology | ||||
| Liner | 43(35.0%) | 41(70.7%) | 25(78.1%) | < 0.001a |
| Round | 116(94.3%) | 49(84.5%) | 29(90.6%) | 0.057 |
| Internal structures | ||||
| Air-bronchogram | 46(37.4%) | 29(50.0%) | 25(78.1%) | < 0.001a |
| Cavitation | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | - |
| Emphysema | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | - |
| Fibrosis | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | - |
| Pleural involved | ||||
| Pleural thickening | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | - |
| Pleural effusion | 0(0%) | 2(3.4%) | 5(15.6%) | < 0.001a |
| Pleural retraction | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | - |
| Lymphadenopathy | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | 0(0%) | - |
| Number of lobes involved | ||||
| 1 | 20(16.3%) | 5(8.6%) | 0(0%) | |
| 2 | 24(19.5%) | 6(10.3%) | 0(0%) | |
| 3 | 28(22.8%) | 8(13.8%) | 3(9.4%) | < 0.001a |
| 4 | 23(18.7%) | 8(13.8%) | 1(3.1%) | |
| 5 | 28(22.8%) | 31(59.4%) | 28(87.5%) | |
| Involved lobes | ||||
| Right upper lobe | 79(64.2%) | 47(81.0%) | 31(96.9%) | < 0.001a |
| Right middle lobe | 1(0.8%) | 31(53.4%) | 29(90.6%) | < 0.001a |
| Right lower lobe | 96(78.0%) | 53(91.4%) | 31(96.9%) | 0.008a |
| Left upper lobe | 78(63.4%) | 47(81.0%) | 31(96.9%) | < 0.001a |
| Left lower lobe | 95(77.2%) | 51(87.9%) | 31(96.9%) | 0.016a |
Abbreviation: CT (Computed tomography), SD (Standard deviation), n (Number), ICU (Intensive care unit admitted), GGO (Ground-glass opacities).
(Mean ± SD or number, percent) were used.
One-Way ANOVA, Chi-square and Fisher’s exact test were used.
a
statistically significant (P value < 0.05).