Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia on F-18 FDG PET

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 763-764

  Sojan, Sally M ^a   Chew, Ghee ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pneumocystis carinii; Positron emission tomography; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 67; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEVER; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ASPIRATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STOMACH ULCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 27644508731     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000182281.69764.41     Document Type: Article

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