Open AccessIncidental Finding of COVID-19 Lung Infection in 18F-FDG PET/CT
Author(s) -
V. Habouzit,
Alicia Baltasar Sánchez,
Sabrina Dehbi,
Nathalie Prévôt,
P.B. Bonnefoy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.637
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1536-0229
pISSN - 0363-9762
DOI - 10.1097/rlu.0000000000003135
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , covid-19 , radiology , lung , ground glass opacity , pet ct , adenocarcinoma , positron emission tomography , nuclear medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , cancer , outbreak
We report the case of an asymptomatic (no fever, no cough, no dyspnea) 80-year-old woman who had an F-FDG PET/CT scan for initial staging of Lieberkühnian adenocarcinoma located on anal canal. Chest analysis incidentally revealed bilateral diffuse patchy ground-glass opacity with mild increasing F-FDG uptake, consistent with incidental COVID-19 infection finding during the March 2020 pandemic. The infection was confirmed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. It led us to improve patient flow and to undertake broader measures to avoid patient clinical issues and potential disease spreading.