Central nervous system Tuberculosis in a man from Cambodia with worsening headaches

Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis should be considered in patients from endemic nations with worsening neurological symptoms. If imaging reveals possible CNS tuberculomas, potentially life‐threatening lesions should be excised and analyzed. When disease is less severe, other tissues possibly...

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Autores principales: Krauth, Daniel S., Stone‐Garza, Kristi K., Amaro, Deirdre E., Reed, Sharon L., Katsivas, Theodoros F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026544
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1119
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author Krauth, Daniel S.
Stone‐Garza, Kristi K.
Amaro, Deirdre E.
Reed, Sharon L.
Katsivas, Theodoros F.
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description Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis should be considered in patients from endemic nations with worsening neurological symptoms. If imaging reveals possible CNS tuberculomas, potentially life‐threatening lesions should be excised and analyzed. When disease is less severe, other tissues possibly infected should be biopsied first for diagnosis to avoid neurosurgery.
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spelling pubmed-56282222017-10-12 Central nervous system Tuberculosis in a man from Cambodia with worsening headaches Krauth, Daniel S. Stone‐Garza, Kristi K. Amaro, Deirdre E. Reed, Sharon L. Katsivas, Theodoros F. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis should be considered in patients from endemic nations with worsening neurological symptoms. If imaging reveals possible CNS tuberculomas, potentially life‐threatening lesions should be excised and analyzed. When disease is less severe, other tissues possibly infected should be biopsied first for diagnosis to avoid neurosurgery. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5628222/ /pubmed/29026544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1119 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Central nervous system Tuberculosis in a man from Cambodia with worsening headaches
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