Table 1.
The literature review includes case reports of COVID-19 with atypical and unusual presentations reported in medical journals indexed in PubMed during the period of the pandemic from January 2020 to August 2020.
| Author(s) | Age | Gender | Presentation | Medical imaging findings | RT-PCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaur et al.6 | 43-y-o | Male | Acute right leg pain with shortness of breath and fever for a week | CXR→ bilateral hazy infiltrates CTA→ Thrombus in right proximal superficial femoral artery |
+ve |
| Davoodi et al.7 | 57-y-o | Female | Painful swelling and redness of left leg | CXR→ bilateral patch GGO CTA→ unremarkable Doppler→ left lower limb DVT |
+ve |
| Visveswaran et al.8 | 12-y-o | Female | Painful swelling of left leg evaluated before 5 days for erythema and diagnosed as cellulitis | Venography→ extensive popliteal to common iliac vein thrombosis | +ve SARS-COV-2 IgM -ve SARS-COV-2 IgG |
| Hemasian et al.9 | 62-y-o | Male | Loss of consciousness | Brain CT & MRI→ haemorrhagic infarction Brain MRV→ sinus thrombosis in right transverse & sigmoid Chest CT → GGO |
+ve |
| Alkeridy et al.10 | 73-y-o | Male | Acute confusion | Brain CT→ unremarkable Brain CTA→ unremarkable CXR → diffuse bilateral lung interstitial infiltrates |
+ve |
| Ozturker et al.11 | 32-y-o | Male | Eye redness, stinging, watery discharge, and photophobia | CXR→ unremarkable Chest CT→ unremarkable |
+ve |
| Sirakaya et al.12 | 40-y-o | Male | Bilateral acute conjunctivitis | NA | +ve |
| Doo et al.13 | 55-y-o | Male | Left wrist droop, left facial droop, and left arm weakness | CTA of the head and neck→ large thrombus in the right CCA and acute right frontal infarction (PRES-like) | +ve |
| de Freitas et al.14 | 39-y-o | Male | Left hemi facial herpes zoster with sharp pain preceded by fatigue, diarrhoea, and fever | NA | +ve |
| Abdalhadi et al.15 | 40-y-o | Female | Right iliac fossa pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, and loss of appetite for 3 days | CT → normal appendix with patchy consolidation and GGO in bilateral peripheral basal of lungs | +ve |
| Kim et al.16 | 42-y-o | Male | Abdominal, testicular, and back pain for 8 days | CXR→ unremarkable Abdominal CT → GGO and consolidation in lung bases |
NA |
COVID-19: Coronavirus disease 2019, SARS-COV-2: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, RT-PCR: reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, CXR: chest x-ray, CT: computed tomography, CTA: CT angiography, GGO: ground-glass opacity, DVT: deep venous thrombosis, NA: not available, -ve: negative, +ve: positive, y: year, o: old.