18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography contributes to the diagnosis and management of infections in patients with multiple myeloma: A study of 165 infectious episodes

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 31, 2005, Pages 7857-7863

  Mahfouz, T ^a   Miceli, M H ^a   Saghafifar, F ^a   Stroud, S ^a   Jones Jackson, L ^a   Walker, R ^a   Grazziutti, M L ^a   Purnell, G ^a   Fassas, A ^a   Tricot, G ^a   Barlogie, B ^a   Anaissie, Elias J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BONE INFECTION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CATHETER INFECTION; CELLULITIS; COLITIS; DISKITIS; DIVERTICULITIS; EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEUTROPENIA; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERIODONTITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SINUSITIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; ARTHROPATHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 32944476834     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.00.8581     Document Type: Article

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