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Clinical nuclear medicine · Aug 2020
Case ReportsAtypical Presentation of COVID-19 Incidentally Detected at 18F-FDG PET/CT in an Asymptomatic Oncological Patient.
- Maria Vittoria Mattoli, Silvia Taralli, Elsa Pennese, Carla D'Angelo, Francesco Angrilli, and Carlo Villano.
- From the Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara University, Chieti.
- Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Aug 1; 45 (8): e383-e385.
AbstractThe incidence of COVID-19, a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by SARS-CoV-2, is rapidly growing worldwide. In this pandemic period, the chance of incidental pulmonary findings suggestive of COVID-19 at F-FDG PET/CT in asymptomatic oncological patients is not negligible. To suspect COVID-19 is more demanding whether its presentation is atypical. We describe the incidental PET/CT detection of an F-FDG-avid isolated centrilobular pulmonary consolidation in an asymptomatic lymphoma patient, which later resulted in an unexpected and atypical COVID-19 presentation. The nuclear medicine physicians should be prepared to suspect COVID-19 even in asymptomatic patients presenting with a "far-from-COVID-19" finding at PET/CT.
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