Aim The diagnosis, severity and extent of a sterile inflammation or a septic infection could be
challenging since there is not one single test able to achieve an accurate diagnosis. The …

Nuclear medicine imaging procedures play an important role in the assessment of
inflammatory diseases. With the advent of 3-dimensional anatomic imaging, there has been …

Background Fever of unknown origin (FUO) and inflammation of unknown origin (IUO) are
diagnostically challenging conditions. Diagnosis of underlying disease may be improved by …

Purpose To estimate the diagnostic accuracy of conventional 18F-FDG PET/CT of cranial
arteries in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Methods The study was a retrospective …

Objectives The diagnostic accuracy of axillary artery US in the diagnosis of large-vessel (LV)-
GCA using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT as reference standard was prospectively …

ABSTRACT A systematic literature search was performed to summarise current knowledge
on extracranial giant cell arteritis (GCA), ie large-artery involvement in patients with or …

Purpose The purpose of our study was to assess the concordance of aortic CT angiography
(CTA) and FDG-PET/CT in the detection of large-vessel involvement at diagnosis in patients …

As the number of clinical applications of 2-[fluorine 18] fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG)
positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT) grows, familiarity with the …

Objectives Fever of unknown origin (FUO) remains one of the most compelling diagnostic
issues in medicine. We aimed to evaluate the potential clinical contribution of 18-fluoro-2 …

Objective: To investigate the diagnostic performance of 18F-fludeoxyglucose (18F-FDG)
positron emission tomography (PET)/CT in patients with suspected large-vessel vasculitis …