Abstract

MARTI, Alejandro; MORON, Sarai; GONZALEZ, Eliana  and  ROJAS, Julián. Incidental findings of COVID-19 in F18-FDG PET/CT from asymptomatic patients with cancer in two healthcare institutions in Bogotá, Colombia. Biomed. [online]. 2020, vol.40, suppl.2, pp.27-33.  Epub Nov 12, 2020. ISSN 0120-4157.  https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.5833.

COVID-19 is the viral infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic. Patients with cancer have a higher risk to acquire the infection and worse prognosis as they have to attend more medical visits in healthcare institutions, receive medical and surgical treatments, and be subjected to diagnostic studies such as PET/CT in nuclear medicine services where the infection may be an incidental finding. We present here F18-FDG PET/CT (Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography with 2-deoxy-2-[fluorine-18]fluoro-D-glucose), images with findings of COVID-19 from patients with different oncological conditions but no respiratory symptoms.

Keywords : Coronavirus infections; cancer; nuclear medicine; positron-emission tomography; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction.

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