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SUBMITTER: Eisert SN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7606725 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eisert Susan Natalie SN Chou Ting-Heng TH Bobbey Adam J AJ Go Michael R MR Stacy Mitchel R MR
Clinical nuclear medicine 20201201 12
A 65-year-old man with an occluded popliteal artery aneurysm and calf claudication underwent PET/CT imaging with F-NaF to assess the status of active microcalcification in the aneurysm site and additional lower extremity arteries. CT imaging revealed macrocalcification of the aneurysm that colocalized with elevated retention of F-NaF on PET images. PET/CT detected additional distal arterial sites with focal uptake of F-NaF that did not coincide with CT-detectable macrocalcification. This report ...[more]