Jamshed Bomanji, Rajnish Sharma, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Sanjay Gambhir et al.
Background A large proportion of the huge global burden of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases are treated empirically without accurate definition of disease sites and extent of multi-organ disease involvement. Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using 2-deoxy-2-(fluorine-18) fluoro- d -...
Jamshed Bomanji, Rajnish Sharma, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Sanjay Gambhir et al.
Background Initial studies of tuberculosis (TB) in macaques and humans using 18 F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) imaging as a research tool suggest its usefulness in localising disease sites and as a clinical biomarker. Sequential serial scans in patients with extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) could ...