18F-FDG PET/CT findings of COVID-19: a series of four highly suspected cases

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2020, Pages 1281-1286

  Qin, Chunxia ^a,b   Liu, Fang ^a,b   Yen, Tzu Chen ^c   Lan, Xiaoli ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUBEI PROVINCE KEY LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR IMAGING   (China)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET CT; Acute respiratory disease; Consolidative opacities; COVID 19; Ground glass opacities; Infection; SARS CoV 2

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HUMAN; LEFT LUNG; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG CONSOLIDATION; LUNG LESION; LUNG LOBE; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MAXIMUM STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT HISTORY OF SURGERY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; RIGHT LUNG; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SORE THROAT; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMPLICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PANDEMIC; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; COUGH; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85079759591     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-020-04734-w     Document Type: Article

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