FDG avid supraclavicular neck adenopathy of tubercular etiology masquerading as neck recurrence in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: potential source of false positive FDG-PET study

We would like to alert our surgical colleagues to the potential of obtaining false positive FDG-PET/CT (18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography) results in the presence of tuberculosis.