Ignacio Martin-Garcia MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Rodrigo Blanco-Hernandez MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Roberto Tabernero, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Manuel Angel Martin Perez MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Piedad Arias-Rodriguez, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Jose Marin, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

-Review the role of radiology in the battery of tests in patients with suspicion of tularemia. -Show the radiological findings in the patient with positive serology results for Francisella Tularensis. -Present the typical spectrum of lesions in patients with a confirmed diagnosis of tularemia.

We performed a retrospective study taking a population of 172 patients who were treated in our centre between February 2008 and October 2009, with fever of unknown origin and adenopathies, and who underwent a specific serological analysis. We present the spectrum of radiological findings with CT, MR an US, with different clinical forms of presentation of tularemia. According to our database, they correspond to: -Glandular tularemia: 23% (axillary, inguinal adenopathies). -Pharyngeal tularemia: 28% (cervical adenopathies and abscesses). -Typhoidal tularemia: 6% (splenic and hepatic involvement). -Pneumonic tularemia: 40% (pleuropulmonary symptoms and mediastinic adenopathies) -and a rare case of spondylodiscitis: 3%.

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Martin-Garcia, I, Blanco-Hernandez, R, Tabernero, R, Martin Perez, M, Arias-Rodriguez, P, Marin, J, Imaging of Tularemia in Various Argans: A Review.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14012844.html