Safety and role of chest CT in COVID-19 patients.

Diagn Interv Radiol

Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.

Published: November 2020

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