Tuberculosis mimicking malignancy

Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-70

  D'Souza, Maria M ^a,b   Tripathi, Madhavi ^a   Shrivastav, Madhur ^a   Sharma, Rajnish ^a   Mondal, Anupam ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b Maya Enclave   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALAISE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 64949171587     PISSN: 11081430     EISSN: 17905427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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