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Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Dispatch

Endovascular Infection with Kingella kingae Complicated by Septic Arthritis in Immunocompromised Adult Patient

Mona Mustafa-HellouComments to Author , Neta Sagi, Yishai Ofran, Yuval Geffen, and Nesrin Ghanem-Zoubi
Author affiliations: Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel (M. Mustafa-Hellou, Y. Ofran, Y. Geffen, N. Ghanem-Zoubi); Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa (N. Sagi)

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Imaging of an immunocompromised patient who had endovascular infection with Kingella kingae complicated by septic arthritis, Israel. A) Computed tomography scan shows a luminal stenosis in the transition zone of the left external iliac artery and common femoral artery along with surrounding turbid fat. B) Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography scan showing high fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the plaque causing the stenosis.

Figure 2. Imaging of an immunocompromised patient who had endovascular infection with Kingella kingae complicated by septic arthritis, Israel. A) Computed tomography scan shows a luminal stenosis in the transition zone of the left external iliac artery and common femoral artery along with surrounding turbid fat. B) Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography scan showing high fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the plaque causing the stenosis.

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