Polymyalgia rheumatica and interspinous FDG uptake on PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 502-505

  Adams, Human ^a   Raijmakers, Pieter ^a   Smulders, Yvo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FDG PET CT; interspinous inflammation; polymyalgia rheumatica

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

AGED; AORTA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BURSITIS; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GIANT CELL; HIP; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; JOINT STIFFNESS; LUMBAR SPINE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SHOULDER; SHOULDER PAIN; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE;

EID: 84859652126     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: 15360229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182485098     Document Type: Article

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