1. 18F-FDG PET/CT and Serial Chest CT Findings in a COVID-19 Patient With Dynamic Clinical Characteristics in Different Period
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Chunbao Liu, Liang Xia, Xiaojie Cheng, Jun Zhou, and Diyu Lu
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Adult ,Diarrhea ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Fever ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,PET/CT ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Chest ct ,Ground-glass opacity ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Betacoronavirus ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 ,Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography ,Vertigo ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Lung ,Pandemics ,biology ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,18F-FDG ,Pneumonia ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Diarrhea symptoms ,Interesting Image ,Fdg pet ct ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Coronavirus Infections ,business - Abstract
Neurological symptoms and gastrointestinal symptoms were rare at onset in COVID-19. Here we report a 37-year-old man with vertigo, fever, and diarrhea symptoms as the first manifestation. 18F-FDG PET/CT spotted multiple ground glass opacity (GGO) lesions in the lungs, with increased tracer uptake in both lung GGOs and the whole colon. Serial CT examinations showed the emersion and dissipation of lung GGOs. We illustrate the symptoms initiation, the laboratory test results, the imaging examination, and the treatment strategy in the duration of COVID-19 with a timeline chart.
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- 2020