[A search for the focus in patients with fever of unknown origin: is positron-emission tomography with F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose helpful?].
OBJECTIVE
Search for focus in patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO).


METHODS
In four patients with the above mentioned problem, F-18-FDG-PET was performed, following the common imaging methods, which were without evidence for a focus.


RESULTS
The origin of FUO was verified in all patients by PET: Tuberculosis, pneumocystis-carinii pneumonia, chronic inflammatory hematoma, aortitis.


CONCLUSIONS
Successful implementation of F-18-FDG-PET as additional imaging method in patients with FUO seems reasonable. This has to be verified by further prospective studies.
Lorenzen
J
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Abteilung für Röntgendiagnostik, Universitätsklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Buchert
R
R
Bleckmann
C
C
Münchow
N
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Bohuslavizki
K H
KH
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014915:Whole-Body Counting / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18