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

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

doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.035

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

Radiol Case Rep. 2020 Jul 16;15(10):1813-1816. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.035. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

Olivier de Barry^{1

2}, Dominique Cabral¹, Jean Emmanuel Kahn³, François Vidal⁴, Robert-Yves Carlier^{1

2}, Mostafa El Hajjam¹

Affiliations

¹ DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
² DMU Smart Imaging, Medical Imaging department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital, 92380 Garches, France.
³ Internal medicine department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
⁴ Rheumatology department. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, GH Université Paris-Saclay. Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

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; Early bronchiectasis; PET-CT; Pseudo-tumoral.

Publication types

Case Reports