Demonstration of a tubercular fistula-in-ano on F-18 FDG PET/CT

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 300-302

  Garg, Gunjan ^a   Tripathi, Madhavi ^a   D'Souza, Maria ^a   Jaimini, Abhinav ^a   Jain, Nikunj ^a   Khurana, Aditi ^a   Sharma, Rajnish ^a   Mondal, Anupam ^a  

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

Author keywords

FDG PET CT; Fistula in ano; Tubercular

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECTAL FISTULA; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 77949958649     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181d18ccb     Document Type: Article

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