Detection of inflammation in patients with acute aortic syndrome: Comparison of FDG-PET/CT imaging and serological markers of inflammation

Heart

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1472-1477

  Kuehl, Hilmar ^a,c   Eggebrecht, H ^b   Boes, T ^c   Antoch, G ^a   Rosenbaum, S ^c   Ladd, S ^a   Bockisch, A ^c   Barkhausen, J ^a   Erbel, R ^b  

^a Department for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology ^*  (Germany)

^b West German Heart Center Essen   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTIC ULCER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTITIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54349118936     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.127282     Document Type: Article

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