Shashi B Singh, Niki Shrestha, Sadikshya Bhandari, Suprita Shrestha, Bijay Shrestha, Neharika Shrestha, Swarnima Rijal, Rajshree Singh, Soren Hess, Thomas J Werner, Abass Alavi, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim
Fever of unknown origin (FUO) continues to be a challenging diagnosis in clinical medicine. It has more than 200 known causes, including infections, autoimmune diseases, neoplasia, and other miscellaneous disorders. Despite the development of a wide range of diagnostic tools, a specific diagnostic algorithm for FUO is not yet available. However, [18 F]FDG PET/CT, which yields information on cellular metabolism, in addition to details of organ anatomy, has been shown to be successful in the FUO investigation...
2024: American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging