title: Nasopharyngeal tuberculosis mimicking nasopharyngeal carcinoma on (18)F-FDG PET/CT in a young patient.
abstract: A 30-year-old woman presented with a painless left upper neck swelling for more than a week. Fibrolaryngoscope examination suggested nasopharyngeal carcinoma. FDG PET/CT was performed for an initial staging, which revealed intense activity in the soft tissue mass in the nasopharynx and cervical lymph nodes. However, biopsy from the nasopharyngeal lesion demonstrated tuberculosis.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine, and †Oncology, Affiliated Hospital of Luzhou Medical College, Luzhou, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhanwen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Jinbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D000077274:Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014387:Tuberculosis, Laryngeal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18