F-I8-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emmission tomography in diagnosis and follow-up of patients with different types of vasculitis

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 323-329

  Bleeker Rovers, C P ^a   Bredie, S J H ^a   van der Meer, J W M ^a   Corstens, F H M ^a   Oyen, W J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FUROSEMIDE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA MEDIA; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR NECROSIS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREDNISONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VASCULITIS;

EID: 1442334564     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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