title: [A search for the focus in patients with fever of unknown origin: is positron-emission tomography with F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose helpful?].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Röntgendiagnostik, Universitätsklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lorenzen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Buchert
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bleckmann
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Münchow
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Bohuslavizki
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18