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Comment
. 2021 Sep;300(3):E345-E347.
doi: 10.1148/radiol.2021210886. Epub 2021 Apr 27.

Prevalence of Increased FDG PET/CT Axillary Lymph Node Uptake Beyond 6 Weeks after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination

Yael Eshet  1 , Noam Tau  1 , Yousef Alhoubani  1 , Nayroz Kanana  1 , Liran Domachevsky  1 , Michal Eifer  1
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Comment

Prevalence of Increased FDG PET/CT Axillary Lymph Node Uptake Beyond 6 Weeks after mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination

Yael Eshet et al. Radiology. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Ipsilateral avid axillary lymph node uptake at FDG PET/CT persists in 29% (49 of 169) of patients between 7 to 10 weeks after the second dose of the mRNA-based BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Axillary lymph node uptake prevalence by week after second vaccination dose. Darker area corresponds to positive axillary uptake, while brighter area to negative uptake.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
A 63-year-old multiple myeloma patient, with skeletal pain. New FDG avid axillary lymphadenopathy 62 days (9 weeks) after second mRNA vaccination dose.
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