Increased 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in abdominal aortic aneurysms in positron emission/computed tomography is associated with inflammation, aortic wall instability, and acute symptoms

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 417-423

  Reeps, Christian ^a   Essler, Markus ^a   Pelisek, Jaroslav ^a   Seidl, Stefan ^a   Eckstein, Hans Henning ^a   Krause, Bernd Joachim ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; ELASTIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; IOMEPROL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA DISEASE; AORTIC WALL INSTABILITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 47249164675     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.03.059     Document Type: Article

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