Primary spinal leptomeningeal gliomatosis in a 3-year-old boy revealed with MRI and FDG PET/CT mimicking tuberculosis meningitis.

Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey.

Published: May 2015

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