[Diagnostic image (241). A woman with malaise, periodic fever and extreme fatigue].
A 51-year-old white woman with extreme fatigue, fever episodes, weight loss, leucocytosis and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate showed diffuse high uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in the entire aortic wall, which is characteristic of giant cell large-vessel arteritis, such as Takayasu disease.
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Afd. Nucleaire Geneeskunde en Moleculaire Beeldvorming, UniversitairMedisch Centrum Groningen, Postbus 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen. p.l.jager@nucl.umcg.nl
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D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000209:etiology; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18