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Analysis of 18FDG PET/CT Imaging as a Tool for Studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Treatment in Non-human Primates
Published on: September 5, 2017
[Lymph node tuberculosis in a patient with polymyalgic symptoms: value of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission
M Wenger1, R Gasser, E Donnemiller
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Innsbruck University Hospital, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Abstract:
18F-FDG-PET studies were performed in a 60-year-old female patient with polymyalgia rheumatica resistant to prior corticosteroid treatment. PET studies showed a cervical focus, which was identified histologically and microbiologically as lymph node tuberculosis.
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