COVID-19 pneumonia: A review of typical radiological characteristics

Table 5 Chest computed tomography and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction sensitivity in coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia

Ref.	Number of patients	Symptoms	Positive RT-PCR	RT-PCR sensitivity	Chest CT abnormalities	Chest CT sensitivity
Fang et al[76], 2020	51	Fever/acute respiratory symptoms	36/51 patients	71%	50/51 patients	98%
Xie et al[48], 2020	167	Fever	162/167 patients	97%	160/167 patients	95.8%
Yang et al[77], 2020	149	Fever, cough and sputum	149/149	100%	132/149	88.6%
Ai et al[44], 2020	1014	—	601/1014	59%	888/1014	88%
Kim et al[45], 2020	7720	—	1336/1502	89%	5845/6218	94%

RT-PCR: Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; CT: Computed tomography.