Still the great mimicker: Abdominal tuberculosis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1455-1460

  Jadvar, Hossein ^a   Mindelzun, Robert E ^a   Olcott, Eric W ^a   Levitt, Diana B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTERITIS; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

EID: 0030944669     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.168.6.9168707     Document Type: Review

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