COVID-19 Viral Pneumonia Complicated with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Descriptive Study

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Images in a 22-year-old female with COVID-19 pneumonia complaining of fever, cough, and headache. (a) Axial unenhanced chest CT scan (lung window) obtained on day 6 after the onset of symptoms shows bilateral areas of central and peripheral ground-glass opacities and mixed density pattern. (b) Axial CT pulmonary angiography scan (mediastinum window). (c) Coronal thick maximum intensity projection slab of CT pulmonary angiography on day 24 after the onset of symptoms demonstrates filling defects (white arrows) in the left lower lobar as well as in both the right and left segmental/subsegmental pulmonary artery branches of the lower lobes.

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