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Chest computed tomography imaging for the upper (A), medium (B), and lower (C) zones: large areas of parenchymal consolidation with aerial bronchogram (black arrow, A), bilateral "ground glass" areas (black arrow, C), and a moderate bilateral pleural effusion. Nonspecific sub-centimetric ilo-mediastinal lymph nodes.
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Nonspecific sub-centimetric ilo-mediastinal lymph nodes and several metastatic lytic bone lesions were also revealed (Figure 1A-C).
(A) PCR Real Time SARS-CoV2 on endotracheal aspirate swab. The green curve shows internal control, the red curve shows the gene of PanCoronavirus, the blue curve shows the SARS-CoV2. (B) Immunochromatography performed on the patient's serum and whole blood showing absence of antiSARS-CoV2 IgM and IgG antibodies.
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Furthermore, based on current epidemiology, the oncologic patient's frailty suggested the need for an endotracheal aspirate detecting spike protein (S) and envelope (E) genes for SARS-CoV2 molecular test that resulted positive (Figure 2A).