Pulmonary artery involvement in takayasu arteritis. PET/CT versus CT angiography

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL.75, 2013, Pages

  Addimanda, Olga ^a   Spaggiari, Lucia ^a   Pipitone, Nicolò ^a   Versari, Annibale ^a   Pattacini, Pierpaolo ^a   Salvarani, Carlo ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

DMARDs; Imaging; Pulmonary artery; Takayasu

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ASCENDING AORTA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84878383633     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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