Importance of extracardiac FDG uptake to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis

J Nucl Cardiol. 2020 Feb;27(1):118-122. doi: 10.1007/s12350-018-1425-2. Epub 2018 Sep 5.

Authors

Nobuhiro Tahara¹, Munehisa Bekki², Yoichi Sugiyama², Atsuko Tahara², Yoshihiro Fukumoto²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, 830-0011, Japan. ntahara@med.kurume-u.ac.jp.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, 830-0011, Japan.

PMID: 30187240
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-018-1425-2

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MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathies*
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Humans
Lymph Nodes
Positron-Emission Tomography
Sarcoidosis*

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18