Correlation between 18-fluorodeoxyglucose accumulation in large vessels and serological markers of inflammation in polymyalgia rheumatica: A quantitative PET study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 870-873

  Moosig, F ^a   Czech, N ^a   Mehl, C ^a   Henze, E ^a   Zeuner, R A ^a   Kneba, M ^a   Schroder J O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HEMOGLOBIN; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMISSION; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; AORTA; ARTERITIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REMISSION INDUCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 3042696771     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.011692     Document Type: Article

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