title: Vascular inflammation in a growing iliac artery aneurysm.
abstract: We have used a multimodality imaging approach to assess the inflammatory component of a growing iliac artery aneurysm in a 53-year-old man who presented with related ureteral obstruction. Research suggests that episodic and heterogeneous inflammatory processes are important for the progression of aneurysms. The combined PET and MRI evaluation of inflammation that we present here is a novel approach to vascular imaging that is well suited for emerging hybrid PET/MRI systems.
authors: From the Departments of *Radiology Biomedical Imaging, and †Vascular Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
authors: Michael D
authors: MD
authors: Hope
authors: Warren J
authors: WJ
authors: Gasper
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Rapp
authors: Christopher D
authors: CD
authors: Owens
authors: Henrik
authors: H
authors: Haraldsson
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Saloner
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017543:Iliac Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D007249:Inflammation; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography