New wine in old bottles: Ga-68-PSMA-11 PET/CT reveals COVID-19 in patients with prostate cancer
American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
; 11(4):332-336, 2021.
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| Web of Science | ID: covidwho-1485905
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to influence every aspect of human life across the globe. It was reported that vascular angiogenesis of COVID-19 was elevated in patients with equally severe influenza virus infection. In this issue of AJNMMI, Farolfi et al. reported that there was lung uptake not related to prostate cancer in almost all COVID-19 patients who performed Ga-68-PSMA-11 PET/CT scans and most of the lung uptake lesions were matched with typical CT patterns of COVID-19. With the advantages of having various tracers for whole-body imaging, PET provides opportunities to study the mechanism of COVID-19 from different aspects and obtain patterns of extra-pulmonary lesions in COVID-19, which helps explore more effective treatments for the patients. This case series opened the door to many future studies. Furthermore, such a multi-national/multi-institutional collaboration in the pandemic truly encouraged us that science is indeed without borders.
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American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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2021
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