Tuberculosis mimicking metastases by malignancy in FDG PET/CT

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 173-174

  Liu, B ^a   Dong, L ^a   Wang, X ^a   Han, T ^a   Lin, Q ^a   Liu, M ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; METOPROLOL; NIFEDIPINE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA ANTIGEN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DESTRUCTION; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COUGHING; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL MAMMARY LYMPH NODE; LIMB PAIN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PECTORALIS MINOR MUSCLE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; SCAPULA; SUPRACLAVICULAR LYMPH NODE; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; VERTEBRA BODY; BIOPSY; BONE TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS;

BIOPSY; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RIBS; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 85018727655     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcw214     Document Type: Article

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