An old enemy not to be forgotten during PET CT scanning of cancer patients: Tuberculosis

Wspolczesna Onkologia

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 188-191

  Sümbül, Ahmet Taner ^a   Sezer, Ahmet ^b   Abali, Hüseyin ^b   Gültepe, Bilge ^c   Koçer, Emrah ^b   Reyhan, Mehmet ^b   TonyalI, Önder ^a   Özyilkan, Özgür ^b  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BEZMIALEM VAKIF UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cancer; PET CT; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; RECURRENT DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85001907821     PISSN: 14282526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/wo.2014.43985     Document Type: Article

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