Lipositsne Nora Eberfalvi, Bouchelouche Kirsten
Department of Nuclearmedicine and PET Centre Aarhus University Hospital, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Jan 26;13(3):444. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13030444.
We report the case of a 69-year-old woman who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT due to prolonged fever. One month before, the patient was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. The 18F-FDG PET/CT showed several subcutaneous nodules with 18F-FDG uptake on the thorax and upper extremities and bilateral lung infiltrates due to organizing pneumonitis. Clinical examination revealed multiple tender nodules on thorax, arms, and legs, consistent with erythema nodosum (EN) induced by COVID-19 infection. The woman was treated with prednisone with a good effect on EN. To our knowledge, this is the first report on EN secondary to COVID-19 infection diagnosed on 18F-FDG PET/CT.
我们报告一例69岁女性因长期发热接受18F-FDG PET/CT检查的病例。一个月前，该患者被诊断为新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）感染。18F-FDG PET/CT显示胸部、上肢有多个摄取18F-FDG的皮下结节以及因机化性肺炎导致的双侧肺部浸润。临床检查发现胸部、手臂和腿部有多个压痛结节，符合COVID-19感染诱发的结节性红斑（EN）。该女性接受了泼尼松治疗，对EN效果良好。据我们所知，这是首例通过18F-FDG PET/CT诊断的继发于COVID-19感染的EN报告。
