Incidental lung findings in a COVID-19 patient on 18F-FDG PET/CT done for preoperative evaluation of Marjolin's ulcer-first report from Chhattisgarh

Mudalsha Ravina; Tridip Dutta Baruah; Tinu Lukose; Ranganath T Ganga; Amal Moideen

doi:10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_82_20

Incidental lung findings in a COVID-19 patient on ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT done for preoperative evaluation of Marjolin's ulcer-first report from Chhattisgarh

World J Nucl Med. 2021 May 26;20(3):319-321. doi: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_82_20. eCollection 2021 Jul-Sep.

Authors

Mudalsha Ravina¹, Tridip Dutta Baruah², Tinu Lukose¹, Ranganath T Ganga³, Amal Moideen⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
² Department of General Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
³ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
⁴ Post Graduate Student at AIIMS Raipur, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Abstract

The aim of this case is to illustrate the¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography findings of a patient who was admitted in AIIMS, Raipur, for the preoperative evaluation of Marjolin ulcer and was later diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. Apart from the primary lesion in the right foot and pelvic lymph nodes, the scan revealed mild FDG-avid basal ground-glass opacities in bilateral lung fields with mediastinal and hilar lymph nodal involvement, in an otherwise asymptomatic patient.

Keywords: Asymptomatic; COVID-19; coronavirus; fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography; ground-glass opacification; mediastinal lymph nodes.