Fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the diagnosis and follow-up of three patients with vasculitis

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-53

  Bleeker Rovers, Chantal P ^a   Bredie, Sebastian J H ^a   Van Der Meer, Jos W M ^a   Corstens, Frans H M ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METOPROLOL; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CAROTID ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; PATIENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL ARTERY; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 0347989435     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2003.07.006     Document Type: Article

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