Thymic tuberculosis preoperatively evaluated with thallium-201 SPECT: Two resected cases

Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-46

  Iwata, Takashi ^a   Inoue, Kiyotoshi ^a   Mizuguchi, Shinjiro ^a   Tsukioka, Takuma ^a   Morita, Ryuhei ^a   Suehiro, Shigefumi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mediastinum; Scintigraphy; Thymectomy; Thymus; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THALLIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34447318408     PISSN: 13411098     EISSN: 21861005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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