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Case Reports
. 2020;4(1):13.
doi: 10.1186/s41824-020-00082-y. Epub 2020 Jul 22.

A twisted tale-radiological imaging features of COVID-19 on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Hazel O'Neill  1 , Simon Doran  1 , Francesco Fraioli  2 , Afshin Nasoodi  1
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A twisted tale-radiological imaging features of COVID-19 on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Hazel O'Neill et al. Eur J Hybrid Imaging. 2020.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on health care systems across the globe in a short period of time. There is a growing body of evidence surrounding the findings on hybrid imaging with FDG-PET/CT, and this case highlights the importance of molecular imaging in better understanding of the biomarkers of the disease which ultimately determine the success in building a model to predict the disease severity and monitoring the response to treatment.

Keywords: 18F-FDG PET/CT; COVID-19.

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Fig. 1
Initial CT thorax demonstrated no acute pulmonary infiltrates or lymphadenopathy (a). A morphologically normal ATS station 2R lymph node is highlighted by the white arrow (b)
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Fig. 2
Initial CT thorax detected a right middle lobe mass (a). Subsequent PET-CT demonstrated no FDG uptake b (CT) and c (fused PET-CT)
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Fig. 3
a PET maximum intensity projection (MIP), b–d: axial attenuation corrected PET, axial CT lung windows and axial fused PET/CT images through the lower thorax. e PET maximum intensity projection (MIP), f–h: axial attenuation corrected PET, axial CT mediastinal windows and axial fused PET/CT images through the superior mediastinum. These images highlight intense bilateral parenchymal metabolic activity, more prominently in the right lower lobe (images a–d) and high uptake in an ATS station 2R lymph node (e–h). Please note spurious right ureteric activity on the MIP images (images a and e)
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