Chest wall tuberculosis simulating breast carcinoma: Imaging appearance

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 86-87

  Goyal, Mayank ^a,b   Sharma, Raju ^a,b   Sharma, Aseem ^a,b   Chumber, Sunil ^a,b   Sawhney, Sukhpal ^a,b   Berry, Manorama ^a,b  

^a Departments of Radiodiagnosis

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Breast disease; Computed tomography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mammography; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST ABSCESS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX WALL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031883869     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.1998.tb00574.x     Document Type: Article

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