Uncommon presentation of craniospinal tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection with multisystem presentations. Involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) is considered the most lethal form among all types. In addition to possible fatality, CNS TB has serious neurological sequelae. These morbidity issues along with diagnostic chal...

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Autores principales: Abdulrabu, Mohammed, Ebrahim, Ebrahim, Warki, Akram, Alsotuhy, Ahmed, Anjum, Shahzad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: HBKU Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8472319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34604017
http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2021.37
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author Abdulrabu, Mohammed
Ebrahim, Ebrahim
Warki, Akram
Alsotuhy, Ahmed
Anjum, Shahzad
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description Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection with multisystem presentations. Involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) is considered the most lethal form among all types. In addition to possible fatality, CNS TB has serious neurological sequelae. These morbidity issues along with diagnostic challenges doubles the clinical burden. In recent years, there have been improvements in diagnostic sensitivity and specificity due to advances in technology. Herein, we report an atypical case of a patient with TB who presented to our department and discuss the flow of the diagnostic workup.
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spelling pubmed-84723192021-10-01 Uncommon presentation of craniospinal tuberculosis Abdulrabu, Mohammed Ebrahim, Ebrahim Warki, Akram Alsotuhy, Ahmed Anjum, Shahzad Qatar Med J Case Report Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection with multisystem presentations. Involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) is considered the most lethal form among all types. In addition to possible fatality, CNS TB has serious neurological sequelae. These morbidity issues along with diagnostic challenges doubles the clinical burden. In recent years, there have been improvements in diagnostic sensitivity and specificity due to advances in technology. Herein, we report an atypical case of a patient with TB who presented to our department and discuss the flow of the diagnostic workup. HBKU Press 2021-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8472319/ /pubmed/34604017 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2021.37 Text en © 2021 Abdulrabu, Ebrahim, Warki, Alsotuhy, Anjum, licensee HBKU Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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