Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management

Melioidosis, caused by the soil saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei, is a great mimicker. With its wide variety of presentations which are often nonspecific, a good clinical suspicion is required for the timely diagnosis of the disease. F-18 fludeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/comput...

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Autores principales: Nair, Sreedevi Sethumadhavan, Varsha, N, Sunil, HV
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8130703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040300
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_132_20
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author Nair, Sreedevi Sethumadhavan
Varsha, N
Sunil, HV
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description Melioidosis, caused by the soil saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei, is a great mimicker. With its wide variety of presentations which are often nonspecific, a good clinical suspicion is required for the timely diagnosis of the disease. F-18 fludeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has a well-established role in the diagnosis and management of various infective diseases. Given the multifocal nature of this disease, we believe that F-18 FDG PET/CT has a definite role in improving the management of melioidosis. Here, we discuss a case of melioidosis presenting as septic arthritis and the role of F-18 FDG PET/CT in the management of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-81307032021-05-25 Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management Nair, Sreedevi Sethumadhavan Varsha, N Sunil, HV Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Melioidosis, caused by the soil saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei, is a great mimicker. With its wide variety of presentations which are often nonspecific, a good clinical suspicion is required for the timely diagnosis of the disease. F-18 fludeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has a well-established role in the diagnosis and management of various infective diseases. Given the multifocal nature of this disease, we believe that F-18 FDG PET/CT has a definite role in improving the management of melioidosis. Here, we discuss a case of melioidosis presenting as septic arthritis and the role of F-18 FDG PET/CT in the management of the disease. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021 2021-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8130703/ /pubmed/34040300 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_132_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management
title Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management
title_full Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management
title_fullStr Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management
title_full_unstemmed Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management
title_short Melioidosis Presenting as Septic Arthritis: The Role of F-18 Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Diagnosis and Management
title_sort melioidosis presenting as septic arthritis: the role of f-18 fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in diagnosis and management
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8130703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040300
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_132_20
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