Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography - Computed tomography for diagnosis of infected aortic aneurysms

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 575-578

  Murakami, Masanori ^a   Morikage, Noriyasu ^a   Samura, Makoto ^a   Yamashita, Osamu ^a   Suehiro, Kotaro ^a   Hamano, Kimikazu ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTED AORTA ANEURYSM; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VERY ELDERLY; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84897041382     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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