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18FDG-PET-CT: an imaging biomarker of high-risk carotid plaques. Correlation to symptoms and microembolic signals

Published inStroke, vol. 45, no. 12, p. 3561-3566
Publication date2014
Abstract

We investigated whether uptake of (18)fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (18FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) correlated to clinical symptoms and presence of microembolic signals (MES) detected by transcranial Doppler in patients with carotid stenosis.

Keywords
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Area Under Curve
  • Carotid Stenosis/diagnosis
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18/diagnostic use
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Embolism/diagnosis
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Multimodal Imaging/methods
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • ROC Curve
  • Radiopharmaceuticals/diagnostic use
  • Risk Factors
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial
Citation (ISO format)
MÜLLER, Hubertus Fritz Georg et al. 18FDG-PET-CT: an imaging biomarker of high-risk carotid plaques. Correlation to symptoms and microembolic signals. In: Stroke, 2014, vol. 45, n° 12, p. 3561–3566. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.006488
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