mini review study in radiologic findings of patients with covid-19-a systematic

Covid-19 is a newly emerged viral pandemic with a wide variety of systemic and local manifestations, and radiography is a main diagnostic tool in patients with covid-19. the aim of this review study is to evaluate the radiologic findings of patients with covid-19. in this work, electronic search was conducted on medline, google scholar, scopus, web of knowledge and sid. the relevant data were extracted. 22 studies including 1108 patients with main age of 50.1 ± 16.2 were included. the most 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%). 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.