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18F-FDG PET finding of an inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm leading to fatal rupture: case report

Authors

ŘEHÁK Zdeněk SZTURZ Petr HLADKÁ Hana VANÍČEK Jiří STANÍČEK Jaroslav

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Nuclear Medicine Review
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5603/NMR.2013.0008
Field Oncology and hematology
Keywords abdominal aorta; abdominal aorta aneurysm; adult; aorta disease; article; autopsy; case report
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Description 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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