Objective: To describe the CT findings and clinico-epidemiological aspects of coronavirus pulmonary lesions at the Radiology Department of Mother-Child Luxembourg’s Hospital in Bamako, West Africa. Materials and Method: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study over a period of three months (November 2020-January 2021). The study involved all patients with a clinical suspicion of COVID-19 or confirmed cases with suggestive CT scan lesions during this period. No patients without suggestive CT lesions were not included. The variables were age, sex, clinical data, lungs lesions on CT scan and their severity. Results: Out of 202 patients enlisted, the age group 52 - 63 years was more frequent (30.2%), i.e. an average age of 60.43 years (range 23 and 95 years). Men represented 56.4% or a sex ratio of 1.3. Cough was the most common clinical manifestations (26.7%). Major findings were mixed appearance of the lung lesions (45.5%). The peripheral distribution was 57.4% and the bilateral topography was 98%. These lesions were extensive in the majority of our patients with 28.2%. Conclusion: Older people dominated the socio-demographic profile of our series with a predominance of men. Cough was the most observed clinical information. Mixed lesions with peripheral and bilateral distribution dominated the semiological tomodensitometric aspects. By severity, extensive lung lesions were the most commonly observed.
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