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Radiology Case Reports

Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2020, Pages 1813-1816
Radiology Case Reports

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

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

COVID-19
Coronavirus
Pseudo-tumoral
PET-CT
Early bronchiectasis

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