18f-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography imaging in idiopathic inflammatory myositis

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 838-840

  Harari, Olivier A ^a   Al Nahhas, Adil ^a   Jawad, Ali ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; SIMVASTATIN;

AGED; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; NECROSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ANTISYNTHETASE SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DELTOID MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION;

AGED; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; NECROSIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 53149131001     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e328304e0fa     Document Type: Letter

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