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Systemic vascular inflammation in abdominal aortic aneurysm patients: a contrast-enhanced PET/CT study

S Morbelli1, G Ghigliotti, G Spinella

  • 1Nuclear Medicine Unit IRCCS San Martino University Hospital, IST Dept of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy - silviadaniela.morbelli@hsanmartino.it.

The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging : Official Publication of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine (AIMN) [And] the International Association of Radiopharmacology (IAR), [And] Section of the Society Of
|March 25, 2014
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Systemic vascular inflammation is present in asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) patients and linked to atherosclerosis risk factors. This highlights inflammation

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