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Laboratory-Proven Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection on 18F-FDG PET/CT
Non-conventional | WHO COVID | ID: covidwho-325585
ABSTRACT
An 87-year-old man with primary salivary duct carcinoma and hepatic metastases was referred for restaging. 18F-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 transcriptionpolymerase 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. Received for publication April 9, 2020;revision accepted April 24, 2020. Conflicts of interest and sources of

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748. None declared to all authors. Correspondence to Gary A. Ulaner, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave, Box 77, New York, NY 10065. E-mail ulanerg@mskcc.org. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections. Copyright © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: WHO COVID Type of study: Experimental Studies / Prognostic study Document Type: Non-conventional