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

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 pneum...

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Autores principales: de Barry, Olivier, Cabral, Dominique, Kahn, Jean Emmanuel, Vidal, François, Carlier, Robert-Yves, El Hajjam, Mostafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Chest
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32788946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.035
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-73650522020-07-17 18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19 de Barry, Olivier Cabral, Dominique Kahn, Jean Emmanuel Vidal, François Carlier, Robert-Yves El Hajjam, Mostafa Radiol Case Rep Chest 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. Elsevier 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7365052/ /pubmed/32788946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.035 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Vidal, François
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El Hajjam, Mostafa
18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19
title 18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19
title_full 18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19
title_fullStr 18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed 18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19
title_short 18-FDG PSEUDOTUMORAL LESION WITH QUICK FLOWERING TO A TYPICAL LUNG CT COVID-19
title_sort 18-fdg pseudotumoral lesion with quick flowering to a typical lung ct covid-19
topic Chest
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365052/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.035
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