Tuberculosis: A benign impostor

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 555-561

  Tan, Cher H ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a   Viswanathan, Chitra ^a   Iyer, Revathy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Malignancy; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUBERCULOSIS; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77749252611     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3055     Document Type: Article

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