Role of FDG PET-CT in Takayasu arteritis: Sensitive detection of recurrences

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 422-429

  Tezuka, Daisuke ^a   Haraguchi, Go ^a   Ishihara, Takashi ^a   Ohigashi, Hirokazu ^a   Inagaki, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Jun Ichi ^b   Hirao, Kenzo ^a   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDG PET; max SUV; Takayasu arteritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859593708     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.01.013     Document Type: Article

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