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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
- Source :
- Circulation. 107:923-923
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2003.
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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 …
- Subjects :
- Hyperparathyroidism
medicine.medical_specialty
endocrine system diseases
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Thyroid
Colonoscopy
medicine.disease
Scintigraphy
medicine.anatomical_structure
Positron emission tomography
Physiology (medical)
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
medicine
Radiology
Arteritis
Bone marrow
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
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