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From: Adipose tissue is a predictor of 30-days mortality in patients with bloodstream infection caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

Fig. 1

Example of a computed tomography (CT)-scan with the area-based, densitometric quantification of adipose tissue (threshold: − 190 to − 30 HU) measured at spinal level L3/4: region of interest (ROI) containing total adipose tissue (TAT) (A1 and B1) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) (B1 and B2); and an example of the densitometric quantification of skeletal muscle (SM), dorsal and psoas muscles (threshold: 40 to 100 HU) (C1 and C2)

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BMC Infectious Diseases

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