Chest wall tuberculosis - A clinical and imaging experience

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-33

  Grover, Shabnam Bhandari ^a   Jain, Meghna ^a   Dumeer, Shifali ^a   Sirari, Nanda ^a   Bansal, Manish ^a   Badgujar, Deepak ^a  

^a SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Chest wall tuberculosis; cold abscess; CT Scan; radiography; rib tuberculosis; sternal tuberculosis; sternoclavicular joint tuberculosis; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BONE ATROPHY; BONE DESTRUCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RIB; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT; STERNUM; SYMPTOM; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; THORAX WALL TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS;

EID: 79551597100     PISSN: 09713026     EISSN: 19983808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.76051     Document Type: Article

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