Abstracts tagged "18FDG PET/CT scan and diagnostic imaging"

Abstract Number: 2683 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Visual and Quantitative Assessment of Cranial Arteries on FDG-PET/CT Can Reliably Diagnose Cranial Giant Cell Arteritis
Pieter Nienhuis¹, Riemer Slart ² and Elisabeth Brouwer ³, ¹Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology - University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Dept. of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging - University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Assessing cranial artery inflammation plays an important role in the diagnosis of cranial giant cell arteritis (GCA). Although an established tool for assessing large…