Using Pet Scans to Diagnose Infections

Often patients can have difficult-to-diagnose fever or inflammation of unknown origin. In this video, Dr. Joseph S. Alpert, AJM editor-in-chief, explains new research that compares the effectiveness of the standard CT scan and the PET Scan CT in diagnosing fever and inflammation of unknown origin.
You can read "The Contribution of 18F FDG PET-CT for the Investigation of Fever of Unknown Origin and Inflammation of Unknown Origin -- Systematic Review and Meta-Anaylsis" by Buchrits et al on our website amjmed.com.