FDG-PET can evaluate the treatment for fungal liver abscess much earlier than other imagings

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1489-1490

  Miyazaki, Yukihiro ^a,b   Nawa, Yuichiro ^b   Nakase, Koichi ^b   Kohashi, Sumiko ^b   Kadohisa, Sachiyo ^b,c   Hiraoka, Atsushi ^b   Miyagawa, Masao ^b   Yasukawa, Masaki ^a   Hara, Masamichi ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b EHIME PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; BETA GLUCAN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MICAFUNGIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGAL LIVER ABSCESS; FUNGAL STRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER BIOPSY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LIVER ABSCESS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84355163138     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: 14320584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-011-1204-5     Document Type: Letter

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