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. 2022 Nov 17;11(22):6806. doi: 10.3390/jcm11226806

Table 6.

Lung imaging in COVID-19 pediatric patients hospitalized during the first five waves of the pandemic.

First Wave
n = 112
Second Wave
n = 175
Third Wave
n = 195
Fourth Wave
n = 511
Fifth Wave
n = 414
Chest X-ray, n 52 33 33 265 71
Positive X-ray, n (%) 24 (46) 25 (76) 33 (100) 149 (56) 51 (72)
Lung ultrasound, n 7 37 42 256 212
Positive lung ultrasound, n (%) 1 (14) 28 (76) 37 (88) 134 (52) 54 (18)
HRCT, n 0 0 2 11 0
Positive HRCT, n (%) 0 0 2 (100) 11 (100) 0