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<Articles JournalTitle="Frontiers in Emergency Medicine">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Emergency Medicine</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2717-3593</Issn>
      <Volume>4</Volume>
      <Issue>2s</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>05</Month>
        <Day>28</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Incidental Findings of COVID-19 Pneumonia in Chest CT scan of Trauma Patients; a Case Series</title>
    <FirstPage>e52</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>e52</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Leila</FirstName>
        <LastName>Aghaghazvini</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Radiology, Shariati hospital, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Bahman</FirstName>
        <LastName>Rasuli</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Radiology, Shariati hospital, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Amir Reza</FirstName>
        <LastName>Radmard</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Radiology, Shariati hospital, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Sara</FirstName>
        <LastName>Naybandi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Radiology, Shariati hospital, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>04</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>05</Month>
        <Day>05</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Introduction: COVID-19 is an infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2&#xA0;(SARS-CoV-2), a strain of&#xA0;coronavirus. The first cases were reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, later&#xA0;was officially recognized as a&#xA0;pandemic&#xA0;on March 11th, 2020.&#xA0;
Case presentation: Here we report five trauma cases admitted to our hospital, not for COVID-19 related symptoms, but chest computed tomography (CT) scan findings were suspicious of COVID-19 infection. Real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays for COVID-19 were reported as positive in these cases.&#xA0;
Conclusion: COVID-19 usually manifests with mild respiratory and constitutional symptoms, even some cases are asymptomatic.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/view/408</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/download/408/308</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
