Takayasu arteritis: clinical importance of extra-vessel uptake on FDG PET/CT.

Junichi TsuchiyaDaisuke TezukaYasuhiro MaejimaHyeyeol BaeTakumi OshimaTomohiro YoneyamaKenzo HiraoMitsuaki IsobeUkihide Tateishi

Published in: European journal of hybrid imaging (2019)

Extra-vessel [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose uptake may be present in the context of Takayasu arteritis-related inflammatory processes. Information on extra-vascular [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose uptake may be useful for detecting and evaluating inflammatory processes when interpreting positron emission tomography/computed tomography scans obtained from Takayasu arteritis patients.

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