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cord-301734-2anqedib	Lazzari, Grazia	Are there overlapping clinical features between thoracic radiotherapy side effects and covid-19 pneumonia? radiation pneumonitis outside the radiation ports : three case reports	2020-09-25		.txt	text/plain	1804	102	41	However, at the Covid-19 pandemic time, CT findings could yield confounding reporting in case of cancer patients previously treated with thoracic radiotherapy (tRT) due to atypical radiation pneumonitis occurring outside the radiation ports. These similarities make it difficult to correctly diagnose among these diseases as occurred in our experience on three cases of atypical radiation induced pneumonitis developed few months after RT off during the Covid-19 pandemic time. [8] Studies have assessed the key role of the CT scan in diagnosis of Covid-19 patients with false negative RT-PCR results showing a 98% sensitivity in detecting and monitoring this disease. However in patients who have received thoracic radiotherapy as in our cases, similar findings could be an expression of several atypical pneumonitis occurring as side effect of chest radiation due to radiation induced lung injury (RILI).	./cache/cord-301734-2anqedib.txt	./txt/cord-301734-2anqedib.txt