Diagnostic and therapeutic impact of whole body positron emission tomography using fluorine-18-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose in children with chronic granulomatous disease

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 341-345

  Gungor T ^a   Engel Bicik, I ^b   Eich, G ^a   Willi, U V ^a   Nadal, D ^a   Hossle, J P ^a   Seger, R A ^a   Steinert, H C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Granuloma; Granulomatous disease; Immunodeficiency; Infection; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0034810566     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.85.4.341     Document Type: Article

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