Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report

Tubercular brain abscesses are rare manifestations in children, and very few cases have been reported till date. It is characterized by an encapsulated collection of pus, containing viable tubercular bacilli. Antitubercular treatment (ATT) is the mainstay of treatment along with surgical drainage or...

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Autores principales: Sahoo, Ipsita K, Satapathy, Amit K, John, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32435305
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_76_19
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description Tubercular brain abscesses are rare manifestations in children, and very few cases have been reported till date. It is characterized by an encapsulated collection of pus, containing viable tubercular bacilli. Antitubercular treatment (ATT) is the mainstay of treatment along with surgical drainage or aspiration or excision of the abscess. We hereby report a case of a 15-month-old child with multiple tubercular brain abscesses with obstructive hydrocephalus, managed with ATT and ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
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spelling pubmed-72277492020-05-20 Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report Sahoo, Ipsita K Satapathy, Amit K John, Joseph J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Tubercular brain abscesses are rare manifestations in children, and very few cases have been reported till date. It is characterized by an encapsulated collection of pus, containing viable tubercular bacilli. Antitubercular treatment (ATT) is the mainstay of treatment along with surgical drainage or aspiration or excision of the abscess. We hereby report a case of a 15-month-old child with multiple tubercular brain abscesses with obstructive hydrocephalus, managed with ATT and ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7227749/ /pubmed/32435305 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_76_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report
title Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report
title_full Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report
title_fullStr Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report
title_short Multiple Tubercular Brain Abscesses with Obstructive Hydrocephalus in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report
title_sort multiple tubercular brain abscesses with obstructive hydrocephalus in an immunocompetent child: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227749/
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