Relationship between fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the large vessels and late aortic diameter in giant cell arteritis

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1179-1184

  Blockmans, Daniel ^a   Coudyzer, W ^a   Vanderschueren, S ^a   Stroobants, S ^a   Loeckx, D ^b   Heye, S ^a   De Ceuninck, L ^a   Marchal, G ^a   Bobbaers, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aorta; Aortic aneurysm; Aortic dilatation; Fluorodeoxyglucose; Giant cell arteritis; Large vessel vasculitis; Positron Emission tomography; Temporal arteritis; Vascular inflammation; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47849130611     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken119     Document Type: Article

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