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ReviewRheumatology international2020

The importance of FDG PET/CT in the diagnostic process of the middle aortic syndrome in a 15-year-old boy patient with suspected systemic vasculitis and final diagnosis of Williams-Beuren syndrome.

Violetta Opoka-Winiarska, Maria Barbara Tomaszek, Aleksandra Sobiesiak, Aleksandra Rybkowska, Monika Lejman, lIona Jaszczuk, Magdalena Maria Woźniak, Edyta Zielonka-Lamparska, Beata Chrapko

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Review in Rheumatology international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Violetta Opoka-WiniarskaDepartment of Pediatric Pulmonology and Rheumatology, Medical University of Lublin, Gębali 6, 20-093, Lublin, Poland. violetta.opoka-winiarska@umlub.pl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1644-5568
Maria Barbara TomaszekDepartment of Pediatric Pulmonology and Rheumatology, Medical University of Lublin, Gębali 6, 20-093, Lublin, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-2106
Aleksandra SobiesiakDepartment of Pediatric Pulmonology and Rheumatology, Medical University of Lublin, Gębali 6, 20-093, Lublin, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0545-5085
Aleksandra RybkowskaDepartment of Pediatric Pulmonology and Rheumatology, Medical University of Lublin, Gębali 6, 20-093, Lublin, Poland.
Monika LejmanLaboratory of Genetic Diagnostics, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8760-0775
lIona JaszczukDepartment of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Transplantology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5551-6915
Magdalena Maria WoźniakDepartment of Pediatric Radiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7436-2432
Edyta Zielonka-LamparskaDepartment of Pediatric Radiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Beata ChrapkoDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-5403
Medical University of Lublin · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The differential diagnosis in children with the systemic vasculopathy is still a challenge for clinicians. The progress in vascular imaging and the latest recommendations improve the diagnostic process, but only single reports describe the use of new imaging tests in children. The publication aims to demonstrate the important role of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography combined with anatomical computed tomography angiography (PET/CTA) imaging in the case of a 15-year-old boy with chest pain, intermittent claudication, hypertension and features of middle aortic syndrome in computed tomography angiography (CTA). The patient was suspected to have Takayasu arteritis, but was finally diagnosed with Williams-Beuren syndrome. The case indicates that the FDG PET/CT imaging might be essential in the diagnostic process of middle aortic syndrome in children. We suggest that this imaging technique should be considered in the diagnostic process of systemic vasculopathy particularly in children.

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AdolescentDiagnosis, DifferentialFluorodeoxyglucose F18HumansMalePositron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyRadiopharmaceuticalsTakayasu ArteritisWilliams SyndromeFluorodeoxyglucose F18RadiopharmaceuticalsAorta abdominal/abnormalitiesAortic diseases/diagnostic imagingPositron emission tomographyTakayasu arteritisWilliams–Beuren syndrome

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PMID32239321
PMCPMC7316673
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