Tuberculosis-The great mimicker

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-214

  Prapruttam, Duangkamon ^a   Hedgire, Sandeep S ^a   Mani, Sunithi Elizabeth ^b   Chandramohan, Anuradha ^b   Shyamkumar, N K ^b   Harisinghani, Mukesh ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ABDOMINAL TUBERCULOSIS; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL TUBERCULOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER TUBERCULOSIS; BREAST TUBERCULOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUBERCULOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MASTITIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTPRIMARY TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; SEMINAL VESICLE TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS TUBERCULOSIS; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS; TUBERCULOUS EPIDIDYMITIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; TUBERCULOUS PROSTATITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; TUBERCULOUS URETERITIS; URETER DISEASE; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902163918     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: 15585034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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