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

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Images in a 64-year-old man with COVID-19 pneumonia complaining of body ache, fever, and cough. (a) Axial unenhanced chest CT scan (lung window) obtained on day 9 after the onset of symptoms shows bilateral areas of peripheral ground-glass opacities more at the right side with interlobular septal thickening (crazy paving sign), vascular sign, and air bronchogram sign being seen. (b) Axial CT pulmonary angiography scan. (c, d) Coronal reformatted images (mediastinum window) on day 24 after the onset of symptoms demonstrate multiple bilateral filling defects (white arrows) involving lobar, segmental, and subsegmental branches of the pulmonary artery.

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