18F-FDG uptake in noninfected prosthetic vascular grafts: Incidence, patterns, and changes over time

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 392-395

  Keidar, Zohar ^a,b   Pirmisashvili, Natalia ^a   Leiderman, Max ^a   Nitecki, Samy ^a,b   Israel, Ora ^a,b  

^a Department of Nuclear Medicine Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Infection; Physiological uptake; Vascular grafts

Indexed keywords

DACRON; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; POLITEF; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA GRAFT; AORTOFEMORAL BYPASS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMOROFEMORAL BYPASS; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PET SCANNER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; 18F-FDG; INFECTION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; TIME; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VASCULAR GRAFTS;

18F-FDG; INFECTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; VASCULAR GRAFTS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899491068     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.128173     Document Type: Article

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