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cord-316376-76beuk0c	Medeiros, Augusto Kreling	Higher frequency of hepatic steatosis at CT among COVID-19-positive patients	2020-07-18		.txt	text/plain	4128	169	43	With the crescent role of chest CT in the management of COVID-19 (as imaging manifestations are extremely helpful in the early detection and diagnosis, in some cases even preceding a false-negative RT-PCR test result) [10] , it is quite feasible to assess the liver parenchyma in the slices obtained at the thoracoabdominal junction in these patients, and radiologists are at a key position, therefore, to evaluate the organ for the presence of steatosis according to noninvasive diagnostic criteria. However, as there is evidence that an early false-negative RT-PCR may occur in infected patients already showing CT manifestations of the disease (i.e., a positive CT) [10] , to assure the criteria of negativity of the control group, we additionally checked all chest CT images of these individuals; those displaying CT findings within typical, atypical or indeterminate categories (according to the proposed reporting language for CT findings related to COVID-19 by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) [11] ) were excluded, remaining only those who were considered ''negative''.	./cache/cord-316376-76beuk0c.txt	./txt/cord-316376-76beuk0c.txt