RESULTS
In this cohort; a total of 5721 chest-CT scans were found to have
acquired at our institution during March, April and May 2020. Chest CT’s
were mostly requested in patients with symptoms of persistent cough,
fever, history of pulmonary nodule, mass, chest operation, trauma
etc.1478 patients were removed from the study due to the long latency of
PCR results. 3460 patients who didn’t have PCR test at our institution
were also removed. Remaining 783 Chest CT scans of 664 patients who have
PCR test results were retrospectively included (Figure 1). 82 patients
had multiple CT scans during their hospitalization period. 340 patients
were female (51.2%) and 324 patients were male (48.8%). RT-PCR test
was positive in 398; negative in 385 cases.