Multifocal Skeletal Tuberculosis Mimicking Metastasis Involving the Sternum, Lumbar Vertebra, and Sacrum
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Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis involving the lumbar spine and iliac bone, mimicking a malignant bone tumour: a case report.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1738-2637,2288-2928
DOI: 10.3348/jksr.2010.63.1.69