Diagnosis of vascular prosthesis infection: PET or SPECT?

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1227-1229

  Burroni, Luca ^b   D'Alessandria, Calogero ^c   Signore, Alberto ^a,c,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547767536     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.042002     Document Type: Short Survey

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