Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases & Practice
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Short Communication

Diagnosis of Spondylodiscitis with 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan in a Patient with Bacteriemia

Luisa Fernanda León-Ramírez¹, Ana Jiménez-Ballve^*, María Jesús Pérez-Castejón¹, Roberto Delgado-Bolton², Cristina Sánchez-Enrique³, Isidre Vilacosta³ and José L. Carreras Delgado¹

¹Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

²Department of Diagnostic Imaging (Radiology) and Nuclear Medicine, San Pedro Hospital and Centre for Biomedical Research of La Rioja (CIBIR), University of La Rioja, Logroño (La Rioja), Spain

³Cardiology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Corresponding Author:

Ana Jiménez-Ballvé
C/ del Professor Martín Lagos S/N
28040, Madrid, Spain
Tel: (+34) 637304314
E-mail: anajimenezb@hotmail.com

Received date: February 29, 2016; Accepted date: April 18, 2016; Published date: April 22, 2016

Citation: León-Ramírez LF, Jiménez-Ballvé J, Pérez-Castejón MJ, Delgado-Bolton R, Sánchez-Enrique C, et al. (2016) Diagnosis of Spondylodiscitis with 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan in a Patient with Bacteriemia. J Clin Infect Dis Pract 1:104. doi: 10.4172/2476-213X.1000104

Copyright: © 2016 Leon-Ramirez LF, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.