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FDG PET/CT in Diagnosing COVID-19 Infection in a Cancer Patient With Exposure History But Minimal Symptoms
Non-conventional | WHO COVID | ID: covidwho-325587
ABSTRACT
A 56-year-old woman with high-grade neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma had known contact history of COVID-19 about 16 days prior to the restaging PET/CT. The patient was instructed to self-quarantine for 14 days, and no COVID-19 test was performed. Upon arrival, the patient had low-grade fever of 37.1°C, but did not meet infection control criteria for COVID-19 testing, and it was approved to proceed with PET/CT. The FDG PET/CT images revealed new multifocal hypermetabolic bilateral pulmonary ground-glass opacities that are suggestive of COVID-19 pneumonia. Meanwhile, the patient’s symptoms worsened, and a blood test later confirmed COVID-19 infection. Received for publication April 11, 2020;revision accepted April 25, 2020. Conflicts of interest and sources of

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none declared. Correspondence to Yang Lu, MD, PhD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1400 Pressler St, Unit No. 1483, Houston, TX 77030. E-mail ylu10@mdanderson.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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