Optic nerve tuberculoma in an immunocompetent patient: Case report

Optic nerve tuberculoma is a rare extra-pulmonary manifestation of mycobacterial infection. It is usually associated with HIV infected patients. Due to its clinical polymorphism, the diagnosis and management of the disease either in immunocompetent patients and immunocompromised ones remains challen...

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Autores principales: Benchekroun, Zineb, Lamrani, Youssef Alaoui, Haloua, Meriem, Boubbou, Meriem, Maâroufi, Mustapha, Alami, Badreddine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7815977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33510826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.01.006
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Sumario:Optic nerve tuberculoma is a rare extra-pulmonary manifestation of mycobacterial infection. It is usually associated with HIV infected patients. Due to its clinical polymorphism, the diagnosis and management of the disease either in immunocompetent patients and immunocompromised ones remains challenging. Herein, we discuss a case of a 32-year-old patient with no history of immunodeficiency admitted for multifocal tuberculosis with a reduced visual acuity as an extra-pulmonary manifestation, and radiologically revealed the presence of tuberculoma in the optic nerve in the cerebral MRI.

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