Atypical disseminated skeletal tuberculosis mimicking metastasis on PET-CT and MRI

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 2961-2965

  Go, Seong Woo ^a   Lee, Hea Yon ^a   Lim, Chae Hun ^a   Jee, Won Hee ^a   Wang, Young Pil ^a   Yoo, Ie Ryung ^a   Kang, Ji Young ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Osteoarticular; PET CT scan; Spinal tuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Whole spine MRI

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; ISONIAZID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE BIOPSY; BONE LESION; BONE METASTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 84867796272     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.8347     Document Type: Article

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