Prevalence of interstitial pneumonia suggestive of COVID-19 at 18F-FDG PET/CT in oncological asymptomatic patients in a high prevalence country during pandemic period: a national multi-centric retrospective study.
Domenico AlbanoFrancesco BertagnaPierpaolo AlongiSergio BaldariAlfonso BaldonciniMirco BartolomeiFranco BoccalettoMichele BoeroEugenio BorsattiAndrea BrunoLuca BurroniFrancesca CapoccettiMassimo CastellaniAnna Rita CervinoFranca ChierichettiAndrea CiarmielloAngelo CorsoAlberto CuocoloMaria Luisa De RiminiDesiree' DeandreisMassimo Eugenio DottoriniFilomena EspositoMohsen FarsadMassimo GaspariniChiara Maria GranaMichele GregianinLuca GuerraFabio LoretiAndrea LupiGianluigi MartinoElisa MilanSergio ModoniSilvia MorbelliAlfredo MuniEmanuele NicolaiBarbara PalumboSergio PapaAlberto PapaleoRiccardo PelleritoCarlo PotiPasquale RomanoClaudio RossettiPierluigi RossiniGiuseppe RubiniLivia RuffiniGianmauro SacchettiGiordano SavelliSaverio SchiavarielloRoberto SciagràRosa SciutoEttore SeregniStelvio SestiniMichele SicoloAngela SpanuGiovanni StortoMassimo Tosti BalducciGiuseppe TrifiròAnnibale VersariAlberto VignatiDuccio VolterraniMaria Lucia CalcagniMaria Cristina MarzolaAntonio GarufoLaura EvangelistaRoberto MaroldiOrazio SchillaciRaffaele Giubbininull nullPublished in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2021)
A significant increase of interstitial pneumonia incidentally detected with [18F]FDG PET/CT has been demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. A majority of interstitial pneumonia were FDG-avid. Our results underlined the importance of paying attention to incidental CT findings of pneumonia detected at PET/CT, and these reports might help to recognize early COVID-19 cases guiding the subsequent management.
Keyphrases
- pet ct
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- positron emission tomography
- end stage renal disease
- risk factors
- community acquired pneumonia
- newly diagnosed
- respiratory failure
- computed tomography
- prognostic factors
- working memory
- peritoneal dialysis
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- prostate cancer
- quality improvement
- emergency department
- rectal cancer
- magnetic resonance imaging
- radical prostatectomy
- pet imaging
- magnetic resonance
- robot assisted
- adverse drug