Response to the review article "Imaging in extrapulmonary tuberculosis" from the International Atomic Energy Agency Extra-pulmonary TB Consortium.

Tom Heller; Sabine Bélard; Stefan F Weber; Elizabeth Joekes

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2017.11.004

Response to the review article "Imaging in extrapulmonary tuberculosis" from the International Atomic Energy Agency Extra-pulmonary TB Consortium.

Tom Heller
, Sabine Bélard
, Stefan F Weber
, Elizabeth Joekes

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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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We read with interest the review article entitled “Imaging features of extrapulmonary tuberculosis” (EPTB), which rightly concludes that imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and follow-up of EPTB (Gambhir et al., 2017). However, rather than a systematic review of all available modalities, this review appears to have focused on promoting the potential role of positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET–CT) imaging, as the authors concluded that it may play a role in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients, especially in developing countries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	143
Number of pages	1
Journal	International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume	66
Early online date	3 Nov 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2017.11.004
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

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Response to the review article "Imaging in extrapulmonary tuberculosis" from the International Atomic Energy Agency Extra-pulmonary TB Consortium.

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