Abbas Yousefi-Koma, Farahnaz Aghahosseini, Hannaneh Yousefi-Koma, Alireza Roohizadeh, Mojgan Panahmoghaddam
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Neurologic manifestations are now being increasingly encountered in patients who are admitted for respiratory symptoms of COVID-19. A 67-year-old male with a recent history of Wernicke's aphasia was referred to the nuclear medicine department for risk stratification of malignancy in pulmonary nodule by 18F-FDG PET-CT scan. PET-CT revealed decreased metabolic activity in the left temporoparietal lobe of the brain consistent with recent CVA and excluded malignancy in the pulmonary nodule with low-grade metabolic activity. Incidentally noted, new bilateral pulmonary hypermetabolic ground glass opacities rising suspicious for covid-19 infection which was confirmed by PCR of nasopharyngeal mucosa sample. These findings highlight the value of 18FFDG PET-CT in the assessment of COVID-19 infection especially in non-pulmonary presentations like early neurologic manifestation.
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