Original Article

Multimodality FDG PET/CT Appearance of Pulmonary Tuberculoma Mimicking Lung Cancer and Pathologic Correlation in a Tuberculosis-Endemic Country

Objectives: Differentiation between pulmonary tuberculoma and malignancy by preoperative diagnostic imaging sometimes proves difficult. The purpose of this study is to investigate variable manifestations of pulmonary tuberculoma mimicking lung cancer on fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) image and pathologic correlation. Patients and Methods: Twenty-five patients with a high…