FDG-PET in cardiac infections

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 377-395

  Erba, Paola A ^a,b   Sollini, Martina ^b   Lazzeri, Elena ^a   Mariani, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CARDITIS; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MEDIASTINITIS; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDITIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFECTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881084711     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: 15584623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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