Multiple hepatic lesions in a case of isolated hepatic tuberculosis simulating metastases on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging

Nuclear Medicine Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 108-109

  Karunanithi, Sellam ^a   Sharma, Punit ^a   Jain, Tarun Kumar ^a   Vijay, Maneesh Kumar ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Liver; PET CT; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DILATATION; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG UPTAKE; ECHOGRAPHY; EPITHELIOID CELL; GRANULOMA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; ISOLATED HEPATIC TUBERCULOSIS; LANGHANS GIANT CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, HEPATIC;

EID: 84906306561     PISSN: 15069680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/NMR.2014.0027     Document Type: Article

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