Intense accumulation of F-18 FDG in colonic wall in adult onset still disease with pseudomembranous colitis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 806-808

  Ahn, Byeong Cheol ^a,b   Lee, Sang Woo ^a   Lee, Jaetae ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still disease; FDG PET; Pseudomembranous colitis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RASH; SYMPTOM; COLON DISEASE; DIARRHEA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149232628     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318187eec4     Document Type: Article

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