Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular
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Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol (Engl Ed) · Sep 2020
[Diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia in asymptomatic patients after an oncological PET/CT].
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an international emergency due to the pandemic caused by a new coronavirus. There are some oncological indications that have special priority and studies are still being carried out despite the current situation. In these studies we have found suspicious findings of COVID-19 pneumonia in asymptomatic patients. The objective of this work is to assess the incidence of these findings, describe their characteristics and the evolution of suspected patients. ⋯ Patients with COVID-19 can present few symptoms of the disease, and in PET/CT studies both presymptomatic and almost asymptomatic patients can be detected, so nuclear medicine physicians should take special attention to the pulmonary evaluation of PET/CT studies.