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ArticleRadiology case reports2020

COVID-19 in an asymptomatic patient undergoing FDG PET/CT.

Lisa N Johnson, Hubert Vesselle

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Article in Radiology case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection: Incidental findings on FDG PET/CT.Journal of medical imaging and radiation sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lisa N JohnsonThe University of Washington, Department of Radiology, 1959 N.E. Pacific St, Box 357115, Seattle, WA 98195-7115, USA.
Hubert VesselleThe University of Washington, Department of Radiology, 1959 N.E. Pacific St, Box 357115, Seattle, WA 98195-7115, USA.
University of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic with a worldwide death toll of over 416,000 as of June 10, 2020. Although the first documented cases in Wuhan, China were patients with severe respiratory symptoms including cough, fever, fatigue, and shortness of breath, the disease process can also be asymptomatic. In this case report, an asymptomatic 63-year-old male with Lynch syndrome undergoing a routine staging fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography was found to have typical radiologic features of COVID-19 with marked pulmonary FDG uptake and was subsequently diagnosed via reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. Many studies have described the appearance of COVID-19 on chest radiography and CT with the most common imaging features being bilateral, peripheral, and basilar predominant ground glass opacities and consolidation. Although these findings are typically nonspecific for an atypical lung infection, early recognition of COVID-19 in the setting of a global pandemic (even in the asymptomatic patient) is critical in order to limit the spread of disease.

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CoronavirusCOVID-19FDG PET/CT

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PMID32788945
PMCPMC7357466
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