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Cerebral tuberculomas: manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in an immunocompromised patient. A case report

Iberoamerican Journal of Medicine, 2023
Tuberculosis (Tb) is, currently, the deadliest infectious disease and is caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; the most common clinical manifestation is pulmonary involvement; however, it can also manifest as extrapulmonary ...
Vianey Guadalupe Tellez Bolaños, Alejandra Lizbeth Salinas Atriano, Karla Daniela Salgado Guizar, Louis Fernando Robles Fernandez, Francisco Javier Pedraza Murillo, Roberto Camarena Álvarez   +5 more
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Disseminated tuberculosis with central nervous system involvement in an adolescent: the consequences of missed preventive therapy and absent immunization

Zdorovʹe Rebenka
Adolescents are particularly susceptible to tuberculosis, especially severe manifestations such as disseminated tuberculosis with central nervous system involvement.
Azizah Hamida, Retno Asih Setyoningrum
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Diffuse Meningeal Tuberculosis

JBNC - JORNAL BRASILEIRO DE NEUROCIRURGIA, 2018
A central nervous system infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT), uncommonly seen in immunocompetent patients, brings a diagnose challenge in the modern medicine. Subdural space involvement of MT may simulate neoplastic or inflammatory diseases, bringing a direct influence in the therapeutics.
Leonardo Giacomini, Alexandre Yacoub, Roger Neves Mathias, Enrico Guizoni, Andrei Joaquim, Helder Tedeschi   +5 more
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Meningeal Tuberculosis [PDF]

Definitions, 2020
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Meningeal tuberculoma mimicking a brain tumor

Radiology Case Reports, 2021
Meningeal tuberculoma is one of the most serious sites of tuberculosis. Its incidence varies depending on the geographical area, rare in Western countries and frequent in developing countries where it represents 5% to 10% of intracranial masses.
Akoli Eklou Baudouin Bravo-Tsri, MD, Issa Konaté, MD, Kouamé Paul Bonfils Kouassi, MD, Estelle Valérie Acko-Ohui, MD, Ange Roland Goulé-BI, MD, Dominique Isart, MD, Emile Kesse Tanoh, MD, Marius Koffi Vangah, MD, Florent Allou Kouadio, MD, B. L. Yao, MD   +9 more
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Phenotype of Peripheral NK Cells in Latent, Active, and Meningeal Tuberculosis

Journal of Immunological Research, 2021
The mechanisms underlying the immunopathology of tuberculous meningitis (TBM), the most severe clinical form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), are not understood.
J. Choreño-Parra, L. Jiménez-Álvarez, E. D. Maldonado-Díaz, G. Cárdenas, L. Fernández-Lopez, J. Soto-Hernández, M. Muñoz-Torrico, Gustavo Ramírez-Martínez, Alfredo Cruz-Lagunas, A. Vega-López, M. Domínguez‐López, C. Sánchez-Garibay, Parménides Guadarrama-Ortíz, S. Giono, L. Jiménez-Zamudio, S. Khader, E. García-Latorre, C. Salinas-Lara, J. Zúñiga   +18 more
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Panhypopituitarism and cranial mononeuropathy, manifestation of NK/T lymphoma that imitates meningeal tuberculosis.

Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 2021
INTRODUCCIÓN El linfoma extranodal derivado de células NK/T (LNK/T) es una variedad de linfoma no Hodgkin; el tipo nasal constituye la presentación más común.
L. F. Pineda-Galindo, Paulina Carreño-Pérez, Gustavo Leal-Alegre, Christopher Enzo Vásquez-Jiménez, Blanca Sinaí García-Aguilar   +4 more
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[Meningeal tuberculosis: cases report years 2005-2017].

Revista chilena de infectología, 2021
BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a global public health problem; its meningeal form leads to greater lethality and sequelae, particularly if it is associated with HIV / AIDS infection.
Diego Rodríguez, Alejandra Zapata, F. Molina, Griselda Pemuolo, J. Burbano, Laydi Correa   +5 more
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Miliary Tuberculosis with Meningitis [PDF]

Practical Neurology, 2002
A 25-year-old woman presented to the Centre for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a 1 month history of headache, fever, and vomiting. On examination her Glasgow coma score was 14/15. Her neck was stiff, and she had a right lateral rectus palsy (Fig. 1).
Thwaites, G, Farrar, J
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Pulmonary and meningeal tuberculosis patterns in children at King Abdul-Aziz university hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A retrospective study

Global Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research, 2020
Background: Paediatric Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant health problem worldwide, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting almost 550,000 children infected with TB yearly.
N. Fida, Mohammed Farouq, R. Daghistani, A. Alnajar, Duha Alamawi   +4 more
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