An Atypical Presentation of Tuberculomas in an Immunocompetent Host

Tuberculomas are an intracranial form of tuberculosis that account for a third of intracranial lesions in endemic areas. If symptomatic, they usually present as meningitis in an immunocompromised host; however, in patients without signs of meningitis, clinical features are essentially indistinguisha...

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Autores principales: Venter, Frederick, Heidari, Arash, Galang, Kristine, Viehweg, Macsen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6120170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709618798407
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author Venter, Frederick
Heidari, Arash
Galang, Kristine
Viehweg, Macsen
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description Tuberculomas are an intracranial form of tuberculosis that account for a third of intracranial lesions in endemic areas. If symptomatic, they usually present as meningitis in an immunocompromised host; however, in patients without signs of meningitis, clinical features are essentially indistinguishable from any other space-occupying lesion. We present a case of central nervous system tuberculosis in an immunocompetent host who presented with new-onset seizures.
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spelling pubmed-61201702018-09-05 An Atypical Presentation of Tuberculomas in an Immunocompetent Host Venter, Frederick Heidari, Arash Galang, Kristine Viehweg, Macsen J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Tuberculomas are an intracranial form of tuberculosis that account for a third of intracranial lesions in endemic areas. If symptomatic, they usually present as meningitis in an immunocompromised host; however, in patients without signs of meningitis, clinical features are essentially indistinguishable from any other space-occupying lesion. We present a case of central nervous system tuberculosis in an immunocompetent host who presented with new-onset seizures. SAGE Publications 2018-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6120170/ /pubmed/30186886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709618798407 Text en © 2018 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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