Transient 18FDG-avid hilar lymph node on PET/CT imaging in asymptomatic COVID-19

Mahboobeh Karimi-Galougahi; Abbas Yousefi-Koma; Neda Khalili; Mehrdad Bakhshayeshkaram; Sara Haseli

IDCases (Jan 2020)

Transient 18FDG-avid hilar lymph node on PET/CT imaging in asymptomatic COVID-19

Mahboobeh Karimi-Galougahi,
Abbas Yousefi-Koma,
Neda Khalili,
Mehrdad Bakhshayeshkaram,
Sara Haseli

Affiliations

Mahboobeh Karimi-Galougahi: Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abbas Yousefi-Koma: Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Neda Khalili: School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mehrdad Bakhshayeshkaram: Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Sara Haseli: Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Corresponding author.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 22
p. e00981

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The most common features of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia on chest computed tomography imaging are ground glass opacity and consolidation. Mediastinal and hilar lymph node enlargement are less frequently observed. Herein, we present an unexpected finding of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-avid hilar lymph node in an asymptomatic patient with COVID-19, and show that this is a transient phenomenon, subsiding on a follow-up FDG-PET/CT within 10 days.

Published in IDCases

ISSN: 2214-2509 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/idcases/

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