Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis masquerading as metastatic disease

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 731-733

  Johnstone, Ryan H ^a   Ardern, David W ^a   Bartle, David R ^a  

^a TAURANGA HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BONE TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 80053445873     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2011.05844.x     Document Type: Note

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