That's how Takayasu disease (a chronic inflammation of the l | Figure 1

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That's how Takayasu disease (a chronic inflammation of the large blood vessels that distribute blood from the heart, including the aorta and its main branches) looks like on PET/CT with 18F-FDG.

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