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Imaging in Pediatric Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis

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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in children tends to be more severe than the adults. It can affect almost any organ system of the body. The clinical manifestations are often non-specific. Imaging findings are also not always very specific. This article describes the imaging spectrum of pediatric extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

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    Anuradha Dawani, Arun Kumar Gupta & Manisha Jana

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AD: Literature search and manuscript drafting; AKG: Manuscript and article review; MJ: Manuscript preparation, figure preparation, reference cross checking. AKG will act as guarantor for this paper.

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Dawani, A., Gupta, A.K. & Jana, M. Imaging in Pediatric Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Indian J Pediatr 86, 459–467 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-019-02858-y

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