Frontal Lobe Tuberculoma: A Clinical and Imaging Challenge.

作者信息

Alemayehu Tinsae, Ergete Wondwossen, Abebe Workeabeba

机构信息

Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

出版信息

Ethiop J Health Sci. 2017 Nov;27(6):677-680. doi: 10.4314/ejhs.v27i6.13.

DOI:10.4314/ejhs.v27i6.13

PMID:29487477

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5811947/

Abstract

BACKGROUND

Pediatric nervous system tuberculomas are usually infra-tentorial and multiple. A frontal lobe location is rare.

CASE DETAILS

We report a 10 year-old boy who presented with a chronic headache and episodes of loss of consciousness. He had no signs of primary pulmonary tuberculosis and a diagnosis of frontal tuberculoma was made upon a post-operative biopsy. He improved following treatment with anti-tubercular drugs.

CONCLUSION

Tuberculosis should be considered in children with a chronic headache or focal neurologic deficit and a supra-tentorial intracranial mass in endemic countries like Ethiopia.

摘要