Diagnosis of Graft Infection Using FDG PET-CT

Graft infections after aortic replacement are a rare, but severe complication. Because surgical removal of the infection source is essential, an accurate diagnosis is required to prevent unnecessary treatment. Both of the patients described herein were diagnosed with graft infections using dual-moda...

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Autores principales: Shim, Hunbo, Sung, Kiick, Kim, Wook Sung, Lee, Young Tak, Park, Pyo Won, Jeong, Dong Seop
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22708089
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2012.45.3.189
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author Shim, Hunbo
Sung, Kiick
Kim, Wook Sung
Lee, Young Tak
Park, Pyo Won
Jeong, Dong Seop
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description Graft infections after aortic replacement are a rare, but severe complication. Because surgical removal of the infection source is essential, an accurate diagnosis is required to prevent unnecessary treatment. Both of the patients described herein were diagnosed with graft infections using dual-modality positron emission tomography-computed tomography; one patient was a false-positive, and the other was confirmed with an infection.
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spelling pubmed-33739772012-06-15 Diagnosis of Graft Infection Using FDG PET-CT Shim, Hunbo Sung, Kiick Kim, Wook Sung Lee, Young Tak Park, Pyo Won Jeong, Dong Seop Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Graft infections after aortic replacement are a rare, but severe complication. Because surgical removal of the infection source is essential, an accurate diagnosis is required to prevent unnecessary treatment. Both of the patients described herein were diagnosed with graft infections using dual-modality positron emission tomography-computed tomography; one patient was a false-positive, and the other was confirmed with an infection. Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012-06 2012-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3373977/ /pubmed/22708089 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2012.45.3.189 Text en © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2012. All right reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Diagnosis of Graft Infection Using FDG PET-CT
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