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Laboratory-Proven Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: An 87-year-old man with primary salivary duct carcinoma and hepatic metastases was referred for restaging. F-FDG PET/CT demonstrated new FDG-avid ground-glass opacities with intralobular septal thickening in both lungs with a peripheral dominant distribution. This was interpreted as a pattern highly suggestive of COVID-19 pneumonia, and the referring physician was contacted. The patient was currently asymptomatic and without clinical evidence of active pneumonia. However, the patient tested positive for COVID-19 using real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. This case demonstrates that even asymptomatic outpatients undergoing PET/CT should be evaluated for radiologic findings suggestive of COVID-19 during this pandemic.

Source: Clinical Nuclear Medicine

DOI: 10.1097/rlu.0000000000003141

Authors: Simone Krebs, Iva Petkovska, Alan L. Ho, Gary A. Ulaner

Institutions: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medicine

Language: English

Topic: COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute