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JIMSA › Vol 36 No 4 · October–December 2023

Case Series · pages 393–396

Cavitary Lesion in POSTCOVID-19 Pneumonia: An Unusual Presentation

Vipin Jamdagni, Rajinder Sharma, Abhishek Gaurav, Harshal Aswar, Shivjeet Yadav, Sarthak Bhatia

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Vipin Jamdagni, Rajinder Sharma, Abhishek Gaurav, Harshal Aswar, Shivjeet Yadav, Sarthak Bhatia. Cavitary Lesion in POSTCOVID-19 Pneumonia: An Unusual Presentation. J Int Med Sci Acad. 2023;36(4):393–396.

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Cavitary lung disease has been described in many different pathologies, namely Mycobacterium, Fungal, Malignancy and Auto-immun e diseases . Among diverse findings of Covid-19 pneumonia in computed tomography (CT) of chest, an unusual presentation of cavitary lesion in lung of patients with co morbidities after few weeks of Covid-19 pneumonia may be a superadded infection in susceptible patients. Cavitary lesion is an unusual presentation in Covid-19, in this case series we aimed to discuss clinical, radiological, and lab oratory characteristics of patients who developed lung cavitations in the course of SARS-CoV-2 disease recovery.

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Post COVID19 pneumonia, cavitary lung disease, corona virus, pneumonia 394 J Int Med Sci Acad 2023, (October-December), Vol 36

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