A Multicenter Survey on the Trend of Chest CT Scan Utilization: Tracing the First Footsteps of COVID-19 in Iran

Amir Reza Radmard ¹ , Ali Gholamrezanezhad ², Seyed Ali Montazeri ³, Amir Kasaeian ⁴, Nemat Nematollahy ⁵, Roghieh Molaee Langrudi ⁶, Reza Javad Rashid ⁷, Alireza Dehghan ⁸, Ali Hekmatnia ⁹, Ali Shakourirad ¹⁰, Masoud Pezeshki Rad ¹¹, Reza Nafisi Moghadam ¹², Hashem Sharifian ¹³, Ahmad Enhesari ¹⁴, Marzieh Aalinezhad ⁹, Ghazaleh Jamalipour Soufi ⁹, Alireza Shakibafard ¹⁵, Maryam Mohammadzadeh ¹³, Reza Jalli ⁸, Mehrdad Bakhshayeshkaram ¹⁶, Taraneh Faghihi Langroudi ¹⁷, Masoomeh Raoufi ¹⁸, Alireza Abrishami ¹⁹, Pooneh Dehghan ²⁰, Hooman Bahrami-Motlagh ²¹, Hassan Hashemi ²², Morteza Sanei Taheri ²³ *

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