18F-FDG PET finding of an inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm leading to fatal rupture: case report.
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چکیده
Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET) is routinely used mainly for diagnostics and monitoring of many oncological diseases. However, fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose as a radiopharmaceutical is not an exclusively tumour-specific tracer and numerous inflammatory diseases may be evaluated as well. An inflammatory lesion showing high 18F-FDG accumulation is likely to have high metabolic activity. Herein we report a case of a man, who presented with low-back pain and increased acute-phase proteins due to inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Nuclear medicine review. Central & Eastern Europe
دوره 16 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013