Infectious and Noninfectious Aortitis: Cross-Sectional Imaging Findings

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 207-221

  Katabathina, Venkata S ^a   Restrepo, Carlos S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GALLIUM 67;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTIC GRAFT INFECTION; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CANDIDA; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COGAN SYNDROME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FIBROSING MEDIASTINITIS; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GRAFT INFECTION; HIV RELATED AORTITIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC AORTITIS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY AORTIC ANEURYSM; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS AORTITIS; KLEBSIELLA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOTIC AORTIC ANEURYSM; NONINFECTIOUS AORTITIS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PYOGENIC AORTITIS; RADIATION INDUCED AORTITIS; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYPHILITIC AORTITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TUBERCULOUS AORTITIS; ULTRASOUND;

AORTITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84861354771     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: 15585034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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