[Lymph node tuberculosis in a patient with polymyalgic symptoms: value of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET)].
18F-FDG-PET studies were performed in a 60-year-old female patient with polymyalgia rheumatica resistant to prior corticosteroid treatment. PET studies showed a cervical focus, which was identified histologically and microbiologically as lymph node tuberculosis.
Wenger
M
M
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Innsbruck University Hospital, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Gasser
R
R
Donnemiller
E
E
Klauser
A
A
Moncayo
R
R
Schirmer
M
M
D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011111:Polymyalgia Rheumatica / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
D001786:Blood Glucose; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18