Fever of unknown origin: A retrospective study of 52 cases with evaluation of the diagnostic utility of FDG-PET/CT

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-23

  Pedersen, Thomas Ingemann ^a   Roed, Casper ^a   Knudsen, Lene Surland ^a   Loft, Annika ^a   Skinhoj, Peter ^a   Nielsen, Susanne Dam ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Classical; FDG PET CT; Fever of unknown origin

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; AGED; AORTIC ENDOCARDITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BARTONELLOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POLYARTHRITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SINUSITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84555169342     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2011.603741     Document Type: Article

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