Radiologic findings of patients with covid-19-a systematic review study

Background and Objective: Covid-19 is a newly emerged viral pandemic with a wide variety of systemic and local manifestations, radiography is a main diagnostic tool in patients with covid-19, the aim of the following systematic review study is to evaluate the radiologic findings of patients with covid-19 Methods: In this systematic review study, electronic search was conducted on MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of knowledge and SID. The erelevant data were extracted. Results: 22 studies including 1108 patients with main age of 50.1 ± 16.2 were included. The ost common finding was ground glass opacification (31.2%) following by consolidation (28.4%) Right lobe involvement was much higher prevalent than left lobe (29% vs 12%) and lower lobe was much higher than upper lobes (33% vs 14%). Conclusion: Chest radiography is a high valuable tool in viral infection detection and according to high prevalence of radiological manifestations, it can be used effectively to encounter this disease.