18-FDG pseudotumoral lesion with quick flowering to a typical lung CT COVID-19

Olivier de Barry, Medical Intern; Dominique Cabral, MD; Jean Emmanuel Kahn, MD; François Vidal; Robert-Yves Carlier, MD; Mostafa El Hajjam, MD

Radiology Case Reports (Oct 2020)

18-FDG pseudotumoral lesion with quick flowering to a typical lung CT COVID-19

Olivier de Barry, Medical Intern,
Dominique Cabral, MD,
Jean Emmanuel Kahn, MD,
François Vidal,
Robert-Yves Carlier, MD,
Mostafa El Hajjam, MD

Affiliations

Olivier de Barry, Medical Intern: DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, 92380 Garches, France; Corresponding author.
Dominique Cabral, MD: DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Jean Emmanuel Kahn, MD: Internal medicine department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
François Vidal: Rheumatology department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Robert-Yves Carlier, MD: DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, 92380 Garches, France
Mostafa El Hajjam, MD: DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 10
pp. 1813 – 1816

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As coronavirus pandemic continues to spread over the world, physicians have to be aware of atypical features of COVID-19 pneumonia. We report the case of a 78-year-old man presenting with pseudo-tumoral focal lesion of the left lung which switched shortly to severe and diffuse COVID-19 induced pneumonia. Nuclear medicine physicians and radiologists should be careful of some misleading hypermetabolic aspects mostly in asymptomatic patients.

Published in Radiology Case Reports

ISSN: 1930-0433 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General): Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
Website: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/radiology-case-reports/

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