incidental findings of covid-19 pneumonia in chest ct scan of trauma patients; a case series

Introduction: covid-19 is an infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2), a strain of coronavirus. the first cases were reported in wuhan, china, in december 2019, later was officially recognized as a pandemic on march 11th, 2020. 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. conclusion: covid-19 usually manifests with mild respiratory and constitutional symptoms, even some cases are asymptomatic.