Miliary hepatic tuberculosis not associated with splenic or lung involvement: A case report

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 479-481

  Tritou, I ^a   Prassopoulos, P ^a   Daskalogiannaki, M ^a   Charoulakis, N ^a   Papakonstantinou, O ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

CT; Tuberculosis, miliary; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMEN; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; NECK; SPLEEN; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

ABDOMEN; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; NECK; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, HEPATIC; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 0034267939     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418500127345721     Document Type: Article

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