Higher fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) uptake in tuberculous compared to bacterial spondylodiscitis

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 777-783

  Bassetti, Matteo ^a   Merelli, Maria ^a   Di Gregorio, Fernando ^a   Della Siega, Paola ^a   Screm, Maria ^a   Scarparo, Claudio ^a   Righi, Elda ^a  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; Pyogenic spondylodiscitis; Spinal tuberculosis; Standardized uptake values

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUTEUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; ILIAC MUSCLE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASPINAL MUSCLE; PET-CT SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; PYOGENIC SPONDYLODISCITIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TISSUE CULTURE; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISKITIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCITIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85015258206     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: 14322161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-017-2615-8     Document Type: Article

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