Diagnosis and assessment of the treatment response in a case of giant cell arteritis using 18F-FDG PET/CT

Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 233-235

  Martinez Rodriguez I ^a   Del Castillo Matos, R ^a   Rubio Vassallo, A ^a   Ortega Nava, F ^a   Martinez Amador N A ^a   Carril, J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ARTERIES; BIOPSY; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CITRATES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALLIUM; GALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; METHOTREXATE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDNISONE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REMISSION INDUCTION; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84862990715     PISSN: 2253654X     EISSN: 22538070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.remn.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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