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Generalized Large Vessel Arteritis Visualized by 18 Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography

Generalized Large Vessel Arteritis Visualized by 18 Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography

Authors :
R. W. Gasser
Hartmut Glossmann
Michael Schirmer
Roy Moncayo
Josef R. Patsch
H Erler
Eveline Donnemiller
Martin Wenger
Source :
Circulation. 107:923-923
Publication Year :
2003
Publisher :
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2003.

Abstract

This previously healthy 81-year-old man with recurrent fever up to 38.8°C and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of more than 85 mm/h had no pain and did not respond to empirical treatment with antibiotics. Imaging by computerized tomography, thyroid and whole body 99mTc-MIBI scintigraphy (because of pre-diagnosed hyperparathyroidism), gastroscopy, colonoscopy, and bone marrow aspiration were …

Details

ISSN :
15244539 and 00097322
Volume :
107
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Circulation
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........ef290aab7b1681fb75abcf88d03e0455
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000050689.89407.87