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Central nervous system tuberculosis: a persistent disease

Journal of Neurosurgery, 1971
✓ The authors report their experience with four recent cases of tuberculosis affecting the central nervous system (CNS), including tuberculous meningitis and tuberculomas of both the cerebrum and the cerebellum. They emphasize that antituberculous drugs have given the neurosurgeon a role of increased importance and effectiveness in the management of ...
H A, Wilkinson, E J, Ferris, A L, Muggia, R C, Cantu   +3 more
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Risk Factors for Central Nervous System Tuberculosis

Pediatrics, 2015
OBJECTIVES: To describe the epidemiology and factors associated with pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis (TB) in California from 1993 to 2011. METHODS: We analyzed California TB registry data for persons aged ≤18 years, comparing CNS
Alexandra, Duque-Silva, Katherine, Robsky, Jennifer, Flood, Pennan M, Barry   +3 more
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Tuberculosis Infections of the Central Nervous System

Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 2011
The causative agent of Tuberculosis meningitis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is the bacteria that causes pulmonary tuberculosis. Proliferating into the central nervous system occurs from other sites of infection within the body. Brain damage can result from the infection that may lead to abnormal behavior, mental impairments, motor type ...
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[Central nervous system tuberculosis].

Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska, 1993
On the basis of a literature review the author discusses the aetiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical course and treatment of central nervous system tuberculosis. Attention is called to the necessity of further improvement of diagnostic methods for making possible early diagnosis and modern treatment of this disease.
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Miliary, Central Nervous System, and Genitourinary Tuberculosis

Disease-a-Month, 2007
patient. 2 While the average number of cases of pulmonary TB cases has declined by 5% yearly from 1963 to 1986, the number of extrapulmonary TB cases declined only by 0.9% yearly. Nevertheless, the rate of miliary TB has remained unchanged. 3 Miliary TB occurs in about 1 to 2% of all cases of TB and 8% of extrapulmonary TB in immunocompetent patients ...
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Treatment of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2018
AbstractCentral nervous system tuberculosis (CNS-TB) manifests as tuberculous meningitis, intracranial tuberculoma, or spinal tuberculous arachnoiditis. Children are disproportionately affected, with high rates of mortality and morbidity reported even in the era of treatment.
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Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 1984
SUMMARY We report on the clinical features, management, and outcome of 27 patients with tuberculous disease of the central nervous system admitted to the London Hospital over six years. Seventeen presented with meningitis, and in nine of these there was bacteriological confirmation of tuberculous disease although acid fast bacilli were only found in ...
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Brain and other central nervous system tumor statistics, 2021

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021
Kimberly D Miller, Quinn T Ostrom, Carol Kruchko Ba   +2 more
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Toxoplasma gondii infection and its implications within the central nervous system

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021
Sumit Kumar, L David Sibley
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The glymphatic system: implications for drugs for central nervous system diseases

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022
Terhi J Lohela, Tuomas O Lilius
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