Rare solitary focal tuberculous involvement of liver masquerading as hepatic metastasis on FDG PET/CT in a case of fibular round cell tumor

Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-67

  Puranik, Ameya ^a   Purandare, Nilendu ^a   Sridhar, Epari ^a   Agrawal, Archi ^a   Shah, Sneha ^a   Rangarajan, Venkatesh ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

18F fluoro deoxyglucose; focal uptake; liver; metastases; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG UPTAKE; EWING SARCOMA; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84920282241     PISSN: 09723919     EISSN: 09740244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.147548     Document Type: Article

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