title: Tuberculosis: a benign impostor.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 368, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.
authors.forename: Cher H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Dimitrios P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Kontoyiannis
authors.forename: Chitra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Viswanathan
authors.forename: Revathy B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Iyer
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology