Title of article
Unforeseen COVID-19 on Oncologic Bone Scan with SPECT/CT in a High Prevalence Area
Author/Authors
Gill, Sana Munir Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center - Department of Nuclear Medicine - Lahore, Pakistan , Hassan, Aamna Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center - Department of Nuclear Medicine - Lahore, Pakistan , Bashir, Humayun Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center - Department of Nuclear Medicine - Lahore, Pakistan
Pages
4
From page
139
To page
142
Abstract
A 65-year-old woman with known diabetes and hypertension underwent a technetium methylene diphosphonate (Tc-99m MDP) bone scan with single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) for shoulder pain. She was initially treated for breast cancer and later for hepatocellular carcinoma. SPECT/CT showed MDP nonavid and scattered pulmonary ground-glass opacities bilaterally along with rounded nodular densities. Another 56-year-old patient who was newly diagnosed with right breast invasive ductal carcinoma underwent a bone scan with SPECT/CT, which revealed bilateral pulmonary infiltrates. Both patients later tested positive for Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). Therefore, nuclear physicians should be watchful of findings related to COVID-19 on SPECT/CT thorax as this is becoming the new normal.
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2 , single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography , COVID-19 , Bone scan
Journal title
Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy
Serial Year
2020
Record number
2573680
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