Table 1.

Patient characteristics and FDG-PET/CT imaging findings

Patient n°	Sex	Age	Comorbidities	Symptoms	Exposure	Imaging						Follow-up at 1 week
						N° of affected lobes	CT features (GGO or consolidative opacities)	SUVmax	LN (Y/N)	LN (SUV max)	Other findings	Symptoms therapy
1	F	45	Colon cancer	None	Family	5	Consolidative opacities	4.3	Y	4.5	Left pelvic lesion	No symptoms Antibiotic therapy
2	M	67	Rectal cancer Diabetes	None	Not known	3	GGO	4.3	N	–	Osteolytic lesion of the ischiatic right bone	Fever Mild respiratory symptoms Antibiotic therapy
3	F	44	Submandibular salivary gland cancer	None	Not known	2	Consolidative opacities and GGO	11.3	Y	3.7	Left laterocervical adenopathies	No symptoms, No therapy Husband hospitalized for respiratory symptoms
4	F	56	Ovary carcinoma	None	Not known	3	GGO	5.3	Y	3.0	Left laterocervical inflammatory uptake	No Symptoms, No therapy
5	M	70	Squamous cell cancer and nodal metastases from CUP, prostate cancer	None	Not known	4	GGO	4.9	Y	3.0	Right laterocervical swelling	Fever mild respiratory symptoms Antibiotic therapy

CUP, cancer of unknown primary; F, female; GGO, ground glass opacities; LN, lymph node uptake; M, male; SUVmax, maximum standardized uptake value