Patterns of extracranial involvement in newly diagnosed giant cell arteritis assessed by physical examination, colour coded duplex sonography and FDG-PET;Extrakranielles befallsmuster bei neu diagnostizierter riesenzellarteriitis erfasst durch klinische untersuchung, farbkodierte duplexsonographie und FDG-PET

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-227

  Forster S ^b   Tato, F ^a   Weiss, M ^b   Czihal, M ^b   Rominger, A ^b   Bartenstein, P ^b   Hacker, M ^b   Hoffmann, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duplex scan; FDG PET; Fever of unknown origin; Giant cell arteritis; Large vessel vasculitis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; PREDNISONE;

AGED; AORTITIS; ARM; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; VASCULITIS; WHOLE BODY PET;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GERMANY; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 79959299906     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526/a000096     Document Type: Article

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