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COVID-19 in an asymptomatic patient undergoing FDG PET/CT
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Johnson LN
; Vesselle H
Radiol Case Rep
2020[Oct]; 15
(10
): 1809-1812
PMID32788945
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The 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic
with a worldwide death toll of over 416,000 as of June 10, 2020. Although the
first documented cases in Wuhan, China were patients with severe respiratory
symptoms including cough, fever, fatigue, and shortness of breath, the disease
process can also be asymptomatic. In this case report, an asymptomatic
63-year-old male with Lynch syndrome undergoing a routine staging
fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography was found to
have typical radiologic features of COVID-19 with marked pulmonary FDG uptake and
was subsequently diagnosed via reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction.
Many studies have described the appearance of COVID-19 on chest radiography and
CT with the most common imaging features being bilateral, peripheral, and basilar
predominant ground glass opacities and consolidation. Although these findings are
typically nonspecific for an atypical lung infection, early recognition of
COVID-19 in the setting of a global pandemic (even in the asymptomatic patient)
is critical in order to limit the spread of disease.
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