title: Solitary muscular involvement by tuberculosis: CT, MRI, and scintigraphic features.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kotoura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosono
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsuboyama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakahara
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Konishi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005542:Forearm; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D004113:Succimer; D019783:Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
chemical_list: D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D019783:Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid; D004113:Succimer