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Volume 44, Issue 1 , Pages 33-36 , October 2002

Bilateral multiple pulmonary tuberculous nodules mimicking metastatic disease

Macit O. Arıyürek
- Department of Radiology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
Musturay Karçaaltıncaba
- Department of Radiology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
- Corresponding author. Present address: Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 9200 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. Tel.: +1-414-805-2173; fax: +1-414-259-9290
Figen B. Demirkazık
- Department of Radiology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
Hadi Akay
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ankara University School of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
Gokhan Gedikoglu
- Department of Pathology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
Salih Emri
- Department of Chest Diseases, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey

Received 14 November 2000 ,Revised 24 July 2001 ,Accepted 25 July 2001.

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