Large vessel vasculitis in elderly patients: early diagnosis and steroid-response evaluation with FDG-PET/CT and contrast-enhanced CT

Rheumatology International

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1545-1554

  Muto, Go ^a   Yamashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Takahashi, Yuko ^a   Miyata, Yoko ^a   Morooka, Miyako ^a   Minamimoto, Ryogo ^a   Kubota, Kazuo ^a   Kaneko, Hiroshi ^a   Kano, Toshikazu ^a   Mimori, Akio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced CT; Fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography computed tomography; Inflammation of unknown origin; Large vessel vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; STEROID;

AGE; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS;

EID: 84896418736     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-014-2985-3     Document Type: Article

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