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Therefore, patients with paranasal sinuses and pharyngeal problems (ear, nose, and throat [ENT] patients) predispose coronavirus infection.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Ear, nose, and throat patients with concomitant asymptomatic coronavirus infection may develop severe pneumonia following surgical procedures. As a result, presurgical screening for coronavirus infection is a substantial concern.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Objective\u2003We evaluated the usefulness of a spiral chest computed tomography (CT) scan in the diagnosis of asymptomatic coronavirus infection in the presurgical assessment of ENT patients<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Methods\u2003In this study, candidates of paranasal sinus or pharyngeal surgery were evaluated for coronavirus infection. Patients with neither history of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) nor compatible symptoms and signs were screened for asymptomatic coronavirus infection. These patients composed two groups: the first group underwent a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test of nasopharyngeal sample and spiral chest CT scan, but for the second one, only the latter was performed.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Results\u2003In the first group, which consisted of 106 patients, 11 (10.4%) cases had positive RT-PCR test results, and 17 (16%) patients showed positive findings in favor of coronavirus infection in the spiral chest CT scan. In the second group, which consisted of 173 patients, 34 (19.7%) cases had positive chest CT scan results.<\/jats:p><jats:p>\n          Conclusion\u2003The chest CT scan has a valuable role in the early diagnosis of asymptomatic coronavirus carriers in patients highly predisposed to infection, especially in low resource areas, where the RT-PCR test is unavailable.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0042-1745733","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,24]],"date-time":"2022-06-24T23:08:35Z","timestamp":1656112115000},"page":"e487-e490","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The Value of Spiral Chest Computed Tomography Scan in the Diagnosis of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Carriers among Paranasal Sinus and Pharynx Surgery Candidates"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8120-6400","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mehrdad","family":"Hasibi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Amir-Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5260-6387","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali","family":"Asadollahi-Amin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Iranian Research Center for HIV\/AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7571-2932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hashem","family":"Sharifian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology Diseases, Amir-Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2629-146X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad Ali","family":"Kazemi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology Diseases, Amir-Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2991-7923","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pershang","family":"Nazemi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Yas Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4154-8908","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali","family":"Kouhi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Amir-Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3114-4931","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Babak Mohajer","family":"Iravani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Amir-Alam Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3210-7905","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"SeyedAhmad","family":"SeyedAlinaghi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Iranian Research Center for HIV\/AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"194","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,24]]},"reference":[{"issue":"10","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2000180","DOI":"10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.10.2000180","article-title":"Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, Yokohama, Japan, 2020","volume":"25","author":"K Mizumoto","year":"2020","journal-title":"Euro Surveill"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"m1165","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.m1165","article-title":"Covid-19: identifying and isolating asymptomatic people helped eliminate virus in Italian village","volume":"368","author":"M Day","year":"2020","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"issue":"05","key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"706","DOI":"10.1007\/s11427-020-1661-4","article-title":"Clinical characteristics of 24 asymptomatic infections with COVID-19 screened among close contacts in Nanjing, China","volume":"63","author":"Z Hu","year":"2020","journal-title":"Sci China Life Sci"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"56","DOI":"10.3390\/tropicalmed5020056","article-title":"SeyedAlinaghi S. 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