Incidental Finding of COVID-19 Lung Infection in 18F-FDG PET/CT: What Should We Do?

We report the case of an asymptomatic (no fever, no cough, no dyspnea) 80-year-old woman who had an 18F-FDG PET/CT scan for initial staging of Lieberkühnian adenocarcinoma located on anal canal. Chest analysis incidentally revealed bilateral diffuse patchy ground-glass opacity with mild increasing 18F-FDG uptake, consistent with incidental COVID-19 infection finding during the March 2020 pandemic. The infection was confirmed by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction. It led us to improve patient flow and to undertake broader measures to avoid patient clinical issues and potential disease spreading.
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