18F-FDG PET/CT in the Initial Assessment and for Follow-up in Patients With Tuberculosis.

Purpose: The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the initial evaluation and follow-up of patients with tuberculosis (TB).

Patients And Methods: Thirty-five patients (18 men) with pulmonary or extrapulmonary TB were included. Diagnosis of TB was based either on histology or microbiological assessment in 32 patients and was based on typical morphological features of TB in CT and improvement on antimycobacterial medication in 3 patients.

Lung cancer in pregnancy.

In the 26th week of gestation, a 29-year-old pregnant office employee was referred to the pulmonary department of Linz General Hospital (AKH) under the suspicion of tuberculosis. She complained of a cough with intermittent hemoptysis and pain in the thoracic spine from which she had been suffering the past 9 weeks. A plain chest X-ray showed a dense infiltrate on the right side and multiple smaller shadows in both lungs.

Lung abscess (6 cm) of unexplained origin in a 36-year-old woman.

A 36-year-old woman developed a lung abscess following an episode of influenza. Repeated blood cultures were negative. In necrotic material obtained by bronchoscopy no pathogenic micro-organisms were found.

Skin tuberculosis with atypical mycobacteria 8 years after combined pancreas-kidney transplantation.

We report on a Mycobacterium marinum infection in a diabetic woman 8 years after undergoing a combined pancreas-kidney transplantation. This is, to our knowledge, the first case report on an isolated skin infection with atypical mycobacteria after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. A genetic probe categorization revealed an infection with M.