Differential diagnosis of COVID-19 at the chest computed tomography scan: A review with special focus on cancer patients
Fabiana Perrone, Maurizio Balbi, Chiara Casartelli, Sebastiano Buti, Gianluca Milanese, Nicola Sverzellati, Melissa Bersanelli
Fabiana Perrone, Chiara Casartelli, Sebastiano Buti, Melissa Bersanelli, Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
Fabiana Perrone, Chiara Casartelli, Melissa Bersanelli, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
Maurizio Balbi, Gianluca Milanese, Nicola Sverzellati, Department of Surgical Sciences, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Parma, Parma 43126, Italy
Author contributions: Bersanelli M, Perrone F, and Casartelli C designed the work, planned the literature review according to PRISMA methods, and identified the areas of interest to discuss; Perrone F and Casartelli C collected the data; Balbi M prepared the figures; Perrone F and Balbi M wrote the first draft of the manuscript; Bersanelli M revised the manuscript for relevant scientific content and copyediting; Buti S, Milanese G, and Sverzellati N revised the manuscript for relevant scientific content; All authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Melissa Bersanelli received honoraria as a speaker at scientific events by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), Novartis, Astra Zeneca, Pierre Fabre, and Pfizer and as a consultant for advisory role by Novartis, BMS, IPSEN, and Pfizer; she also received fees for copyright transfer by Sciclone Pharmaceuticals and research funding by Roche S.p.A., Seqirus UK, Pfizer, Novartis, BMS, Astra Zeneca, and Sanofi Genzyme. Sebastiano Buti received honoraria as a speaker at scientific events and advisory role by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), Pfizer; MSD, Ipsen, Roche, Eli-Lilly, AstraZeneca and Novartis; he also received research funding from Novartis. All the other authors declare they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
PRISMA 2009 Checklist statement: The authors have read the PRISMA 2009 Checklist, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Melissa Bersanelli, MD, Adjunct Professor, Chief Doctor, Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, Parma 43126, Italy. bersamel@libero.it
Received: January 28, 2021
Peer-review started: January 28, 2021
First decision: May 6, 2021
Revised: May 18, 2021
Accepted: August 2, 2021
Article in press: August 2, 2021
Published online: August 28, 2021
