Harran Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi
Yazarlar: Suda Tekin KORUK, Celal CALİSİR, Hasan CECE, Mehmet Refik BAYRAKTAR
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Anahtar Kelimeler:Brain,Extrapulmonary tuberculosis,Spinal tuberculoma
Özet: Central nervous system CNS tuberculosis is an unusual entity of tuberculosis. It usually results from rupture of superficial infective focus. Here, we report a rare case of concurrent intracranial and intramedullary spinal cord tuberculomas in an 18-year-old woman. The patient was presented with headache, diplopia, malaise, weight loss and intermittent fever. She improved well on antituberculous drugs without neurosurgical excision of the lesions. We emphasize that, in endemic areas of tuberculosis, such as Turkey, in the presence of fever, night sweats, diplopia and focal neurological deficits, one should not rule out the existence of CNS tuberculosis. Also not all cases of CNS require surgical intervention