Fever of Unknown Origin

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-87

  Bleeker Rovers, Chantal P ^a   van der Meer, Jos W M ^a   Oyen, Wim J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; GRANULOCYTE ANTIBODY; GRANULOCYTE IN 111; INDIUM 111; LEUKOCYTE IN 111; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEUKOCYTE; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CITRATES; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALLIUM; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 58849130731     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2008.10.002     Document Type: Review

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