Negative 18F-FDG-PET imaging in fever and inflammation of unknown origin: now what?

Intern Emerg Med. 2023 Sep;18(6):1865-1869. doi: 10.1007/s11739-023-03293-w. Epub 2023 May 16.

Albrecht Betrains^{1

2}, Lien Moreel^{3

4}, William Floyd Wright⁵, Daniel Blockmans^{3

4

6}, Steven Vanderschueren^{3

4

6}

¹ Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. albrecht.betrains@uzleuven.be.
² Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. albrecht.betrains@uzleuven.be.
³ Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Autoinflammatory, Autoimmune and Pediatric Rheumatic Disease (ERN-RITA), European Reference Network for Immunodeficiency, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Keywords: 18F-FDG-PET; FUO; IUO.

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