Disseminated tuberculosis in a patient with AIDS on F-18 FDG PET/CT

AbstractDisseminated tuberculosis due to opportunistic infections is important to be diagnosed as early as possible because of the high lethality involved with AIDS. A 28-year-old patient with AIDS was hospitalized for intermittent lumbago. A fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scan showed varying degrees of FDG uptakes in the multiple lesions of the whole body. We presented a case of disseminated tuberculosis in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and discussed the usefulness of F-18 FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis of the disseminated tuberculosis