Substantial Overlap of CT Findings of COVID-19, Influenza, and Organizing Pneumonia Limit Radiologists' Diagnostic Accuracy

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.21.25640

Characteristic CT findings of COVID-19 pneumonia have been extensively described, including the substantial overlap with findings of other infectious etiologies such as influenza. However, CT findings also have substantial overlap with those of non-infectious organizing pneumonia. Matthew Peterson, MD discusses a new AJR study sample with equal proportions of these infectious and non-infectious diagnoses, in which radiologists' diagnostic accuracy was low.