Systemic disseminated tuberculosis mimicking malignancy on F-18 FDG PET-CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-51

  Li, Ya Jun ^a,b   Zhang, Yue ^a   Gao, Shuo ^a   Bai, Ren Ju ^b  

^a PET CT Center   (China)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Colonic carcinoma; FDG PET; Metastases; PET CT; Systemic tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COLON CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DRUG UPTAKE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 37549060311     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31815c5004     Document Type: Article

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