title: Imaging of primary and secondary inflammatory diseases involving large and medium-sized vessels and their potential mimics: a multitechnique approach.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to illustrate multitechnique imaging findings in patients with primary and secondary vasculitides involving large and medium-sized vessels and their mimics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Large and medium-sized vessels are affected by many primary and secondary inflammatory disorders or mimicking conditions, often presenting similar imaging characteristics. Knowledge of distinctive imaging features such as location, length, and degree of vessel wall enhancement as well as the particular clinical settings will help the clinician in appropriately narrowing down the differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Hoppe-Seyler-Str.3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Spira
authors.forename: Ina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kötter
authors.forename: Ulrike
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ernemann
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Balletshofer
authors.forename: Christina A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Pfannenberg
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fenchel
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horger
mesh_terms: D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals