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cord-274203-urqed43m	Katal, Sanaz	Chest-CT findings of COVID-19 in patients with pre-existing malignancies; a pictorial review	2020-06-09		.txt	text/plain	2338	120	41	With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and exponentially increasing incidence throughout the world, in at-risk and vulnerable populations such as patients with known malignancies, infection with SARS-CoV-2 should be included in the differential considerations even with atypical image pictures. [6] on 1,590 patients with COVID19 in China has asserted that pre-existing conditions (including malignant neoplastic disease) correlate positively with poorer clinical outcomes, similar to previous findings in other severe acute respiratory diseases, such as SARS and MERS [7] . To the best of our knowledge, no study has been conducted to evaluate chest CT features in patients with malignancy and concomitant COVID-19 infection and the specific imaging findings have not yet been fully understood in this setting. However, although peripheral GGOs and consolidations are usually highly suggestive of superimposed COVID-19 pneumonia, these findings can be hardly distinguishable from an underlying lung malignancy or other opportunistic infections in patients with known lung cancer and warrant clinical, epidemic and laboratory correlation with PCR testing.	./cache/cord-274203-urqed43m.txt	./txt/cord-274203-urqed43m.txt