Husmann, Lars; Huellner, Martin W; Hasse, Barbara (2020). Therapy control in a patient with an inflammatory abdominal aneurysm: potential pitfalls in PET/CT imaging. Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 45(6):e288-e289.
We present a case of inflammatory abdominal arterial aneurysms, which demonstrates the potential usefulness of PET/CT with F-FDG in long-term monitoring of this disease, but also demonstrates potential pitfalls in abdominal arterial aneurysm imaging with PET/CT. Imaging may be challenged as the initial presentation prior to therapy may mimic an infected aneurysm. Follow-up images may be mistaken for vascular graft infection or persistent disease.
We present a case of inflammatory abdominal arterial aneurysms, which demonstrates the potential usefulness of PET/CT with F-FDG in long-term monitoring of this disease, but also demonstrates potential pitfalls in abdominal arterial aneurysm imaging with PET/CT. Imaging may be challenged as the initial presentation prior to therapy may mimic an infected aneurysm. Follow-up images may be mistaken for vascular graft infection or persistent disease.
| Item Type: | Journal Article, refereed, original work |
|---|---|
| Communities & Collections: | 04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Clinic for Nuclear Medicine
04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Clinic for Infectious Diseases |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 610 Medicine & health |
| Scopus Subject Areas: | Health Sciences > Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 1 June 2020 |
| Deposited On: | 02 Sep 2020 18:01 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2022 02:24 |
| Publisher: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| ISSN: | 0363-9762 |
| OA Status: | Green |
| Publisher DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0000000000003036 |
| PubMed ID: | 32332315 |
Husmann, Lars