Abstract
The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a diagnostic and
management challenge to the clinician, which further gets heightened when patients
present with abdominal complications in a cancer care center. The atypical manifestations
of the disease provide a diagnostic conundrum to the radiologist and leave the pathologist
in the perils of guiding further management to the clinician. Although previous literature
shows gastrointestinal involvement in COVID-19, we present a case series of complicated
subjects with clinical imaging as a pictorial essay and relevant pathology. The abdominal
manifestations of COVID-19 are complicated in cancer patients where a variety of other
differentials such as infiltration by metastatic disease and drug-related chemo toxicity
effects must be taken into account, which may be ruled out by clinical workup, adequate
imaging, and laboratory tests. This would help achieve better clinical acumen and
modify management in these subjects.
Keywords
COVID-19 - cancer patients - gastrointestinal - computed tomography
