A Bright Spot

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-39

  Huyge, Valérie ^a   Unger, Philippe ^b   Goldman, Serge ^a  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RIFAMPICIN; TRACER; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; AORTA PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72649101626     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.10.002     Document Type: Note

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