18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19.

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DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

Published: October 2020

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.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365052PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.035DOI Listing

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