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Unforeseen COVID-19 on Oncologic Bone Scan with SPECT/CT in a High Prevalence Area
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VOLUME: 29 ISSUE: 3
P: 139-142
October 2020

Unforeseen COVID-19 on Oncologic Bone Scan with SPECT/CT in a High Prevalence Area

Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther 2020;29(3):139-142
DOI: 10.4274/mirt.galenos.2020.76059
Sana Munir Gill
Aamna Hassan
Humayun Bashir
1. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Lahore, Pakistan
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Received Date: 30.06.2020
Accepted Date: 23.08.2020
Publish Date: 19.10.2020
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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.

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