Importance of extracardiac FDG uptake to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosis.

However, endomyocardial biopsy shows the limited sensitivity no better than 30% by sampling errors due to patchy distribution of cardiac granulomas.[2],[4],[5] Sarcoidosis often has been determined by extracardiac biopsy specimens from skin, muscle, and lymph node. While cardiac involvement is clini...

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Published in:	Journal of Nuclear Cardiology Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 118 - 123
Main Authors:	Tahara, Nobuhiro, Bekki, Munehisa, Sugiyama, Yoichi, Tahara, Atsuko, Fukumoto, Yoshihiro
Format:	commentary Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier B.V. Feb2020
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