Features and clinical impact of extra-cardiac lesions with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis
Background: Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disorder and can often affect any other organs beyond the heart. Whole-body 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is used to detect not only cardiac but also extra-cardiac involvement of sarcoidosis. However, the features and...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-10-01
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Series: | International Journal of Cardiology: Heart & Vasculature |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352906720302852 |