Disseminated Tuberculosis Mimicking Ankylosing Spondylitis
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Disseminated Tuberculosis Mimicking Ankylosing Spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory disorder affecting mainly the axial skeleton. Here we report a case of a man with a clinical suspicion of ankylosing spondylitis but with a persistence of increased inflammatory markers. In this case, (18)F-FDG-PET/CT revealed multiple hypermetabolic lesions in axial skeleton, lymph nodes, and the lung, suggestive of either disseminated tuberculo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Rheumatology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2090-6889,2090-6897
DOI: 10.1155/2011/195085