Cristina Gamila Wakfie-Corieh, Alba María Blanes García, Federico Ferrando-Castagnetto, Raquel Valhondo-Rama, Aida Ortega Candil, Cristina Rodríguez Rey, María Nieves Cabrera Martín, Marta García García-Esquinas, Rosa María Couto Caro, María Pedrera Canal, José Luis Carreras Delgado
BACKGROUND: Lung involvement in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) undergoing PET-CT has been previously reported. However, FDG uptake outside lung parenchyma was poorly characterized in detail. We evaluated the extra-parenchymal lung involvement in asymptomatic cancer patients with COVID-19 pneumonia through 18 F-FDG PET-CT. METHODS: A total of 1079 oncologic 18 F-FDG PET-CT were performed between February 2 and May 18, 2020. Confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia was defined as characteristic ground-glass bilateral CT infiltrates and positive genetic/serologic tests...
September 8, 2020: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging