Positron emission tomography/computed tomography improves diagnostics of inflammatory arteritis.

Abstract:

:Based on the unique property of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose, localization and follow-up of hypermetabolic processes is possible with positron emission tomography (PET). The dual-modality PET/computed tomography (CT) systems provide intrinsically fused morphologic and functional data in a single examination. We report on two patients with inflammatory aortitis and positive PET/CT findings. A 57-year-old woman with an inflammatory process involving the thoracolumbal aorta with an aneurysm and a 48-year-old woman with an aneurysm of the thoracic aorta and pronounced fluorodeoxyglucose-uptake. The advantages in differentiation of vessel wall structures compared with PET or CT alone are pointed out.

journal_name

Heart Vessels

journal_title

Heart and vessels

authors

Kröger K,Antoch G,Goyen M,Freudenberg LS,Veit P,Janicke I,Bockisch A,Forsting M

doi

10.1007/s00380-004-0808-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-07-01 00:00:00

pages

179-83

issue

4

eissn

0910-8327

issn

1615-2573

journal_volume

20

pub_type

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