COVID-19 Vaccination Manifesting as Incidental Lymph Nodal Uptake on 18F-FDG PET/CT.
Clin Nucl Med
; 46(5): 435-436, 2021 May 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1116482
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Benign uptake on 18F-FDG PET can be seen with inflammatory conditions. We report a case of an 86-year-old woman with successfully treated nasal melanoma who underwent routine follow-up 18F-FDG PET, day 6 after the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine inoculated in the left deltoid muscle. 18F-FDG PET showed increase tracer uptake in the left deltoid muscle and in 2 normal-sized left subpectoral nodes. These findings were considered secondary to vaccination. With the current drive of global COVID-19 immunization, this case highlights the importance of documenting vaccination history at the time of scanning to avoid false-positive results.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Vaccination
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Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
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Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
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COVID-19 Vaccines
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Lymph Nodes
Type of study:
Case report
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Cohort study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Clin Nucl Med
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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