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“…In doubtful cases, a CT scan is required if the epidemiological, clinical and microbiological criteria are not enough to make a diagnosis [40][41][42]. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is routinely employed in the diagnostic work-up of extrapulmonary TB when involving the central nervous system or the bones or in pediatric age [43][44][45][46][47]. There is also growing interest towards Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET/PET-CT) as a diagnostic or follow-up tool in TB, but nowadays its possible role is seen as controversial mainly because of its poor specificity with regard to other infectious and non-infectious conditions (i.e., aspergilloma, community-or hospital-acquired pneumonia, malignancies, autoimmune disorders), its lack of usefulness during follow-up due to persistent inflammation and its high cost [48][49][50][51].…”