Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report

We are reporting a case of 16-year-old boy presented with severe headache and blurred vision. MRI showed a pineal region mass that was initially thought to be a germinoma. Endoscopic biopsy revealed tuberculoma which is an exceedingly rare and unusual location for CNS tuberculoma. The patient was tr...

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Autores principales: El-Diasty, Mohamed Tarek, Reda, Azza Sami, Daghistani, Razan Kamal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8247747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221644
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS_84_2021
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description We are reporting a case of 16-year-old boy presented with severe headache and blurred vision. MRI showed a pineal region mass that was initially thought to be a germinoma. Endoscopic biopsy revealed tuberculoma which is an exceedingly rare and unusual location for CNS tuberculoma. The patient was treated successfully with anti-tuberculous therapy.
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spelling pubmed-82477472021-07-02 Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report El-Diasty, Mohamed Tarek Reda, Azza Sami Daghistani, Razan Kamal J Clin Imaging Sci Case Report We are reporting a case of 16-year-old boy presented with severe headache and blurred vision. MRI showed a pineal region mass that was initially thought to be a germinoma. Endoscopic biopsy revealed tuberculoma which is an exceedingly rare and unusual location for CNS tuberculoma. The patient was treated successfully with anti-tuberculous therapy. Scientific Scholar 2021-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8247747/ /pubmed/34221644 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS_84_2021 Text en © 2021 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Journal of Clinical Imaging Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report
title Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report
title_full Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report
title_fullStr Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report
title_short Solitary Pineal Gland Tuberculoma Mimicking Germinoma: A Case Report
title_sort solitary pineal gland tuberculoma mimicking germinoma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8247747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221644
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JCIS_84_2021
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