Diffuse metabolic activation of reticuloendothelium on F-18 FDG PET imaging in a case of visceral leishmania

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-36

  Lupi, Andrea ^a   Todeschini, Giuseppe ^b   Zanco, Pierluigi ^a  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Policlinico GB Rossi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Leishmaniasis; Metabolic activation; PET scan; Reticuloendothelium

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 29444441329     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000191574.30071.d7     Document Type: Article

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