Tuberculosis Resembling Lymphoma: Case Report and ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Findings

Luo Y, Han Y, Yijing X, Wang F, Zhou J

Department of Radiology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, China
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, China
Second Clinical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging of Gansu Province, China
Department of Pathology, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, China
These authors contributed equally to this work

^*Correspondance to: Zhou Junlin 

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Abstract:

The imaging findings of TB are varied. We report the PET/CT findings of a systemic lymphoma-like TB, which were initially misdiagnosed as lymphoma with lung infiltration. TB was confirmed by cervical lymph node biopsy. Through a study of this case to further improve our understanding of systemic TB.

Keywords:

Tuberculosis; Positron emission tomography; Computed tomography

Cite the Article:

Luo Y, Han Y, Yijing X, Wang F, Zhou J. Tuberculosis Resembling Lymphoma: Case Report and 18F-FDG PET/CT Findings. Clin Case Rep Int. 2022; 6: 1409.