Mycotic aneurysm in a pulmonary artery detected with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging.

Eur Heart J

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bichat, Département Hospitalo-Universitaire FIRE, INSERM 1148, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, 46 rue Henri Huchard, 75018 Paris, France.

Published: December 2017

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