Tuberculosis: a benign impostor.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the overlapping radiologic patterns in proven tuberculosis cases in patients initially referred to our cancer center for presumed malignancy.


CONCLUSIONS
Tuberculosis can simulate malignancy both clinically and radiologically, especially in its extrapulmonary form.
Tan
Cher H
CH
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 368, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.
Kontoyiannis
Dimitrios P
DP
Viswanathan
Chitra
C
Iyer
Revathy B
RB
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology