Solitary muscular involvement by tuberculosis: CT, MRI, and scintigraphic features

H Kobayashi; Y Kotoura; M Hosono; T Tsuboyama; H Sakahara; J Konishi

doi:10.1016/0895-6111(95)00003-9

Solitary muscular involvement by tuberculosis: CT, MRI, and scintigraphic features

Comput Med Imaging Graph. 1995 Mar-Apr;19(2):237-40. doi: 10.1016/0895-6111(95)00003-9.

Authors

H Kobayashi¹, Y Kotoura, M Hosono, T Tsuboyama, H Sakahara, J Konishi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine, Japan.

PMID: 7780949
DOI: 10.1016/0895-6111(95)00003-9

Abstract

The authors reported computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and scintigraphic findings of a patient with solitary muscular tuberculosis in the forearm. All these findings resembled those of other granulomatous inflammatory lesions in the soft tissue such as muscular sarcoidosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Forearm*
Gallium Radioisotopes
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Muscular Diseases / diagnosis*
Muscular Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Organotechnetium Compounds
Radionuclide Imaging
Succimer
Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
Tuberculoma / diagnosis
Tuberculoma / diagnostic imaging
Tuberculosis / diagnosis*
Tuberculosis / diagnostic imaging

Substances

Gallium Radioisotopes
Organotechnetium Compounds
Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid
Succimer