Agrawal Prity, Phuyal Subash, Panth Rajesh, Shrestha Pratyush, Lamsal Ritesh
Radiology, Upendra Devkota Memorial National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Kathmandu, NPL.
Neuroimaging and Interventional Neuroradiology, Upendra Devkota Memorial National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Kathmandu, NPL.
Cureus. 2020 Sep 20;12(9):e10546. doi: 10.7759/cureus.10546.
Giant cerebral tuberculoma is an uncommon but serious form of tuberculosis. We report two patients who had a single, large lesion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. Both patients underwent neurosurgery for the excision of the mass lesion as neuroimaging findings were suggestive of a brain tumor. Tuberculoma was later diagnosed on histopathological examination. We want to highlight that cerebral tuberculomas can mimic malignant brain tumors, as the clinical, laboratory, and radiologic features of cerebral tuberculomas are nonspecific.
巨大脑结核瘤是一种罕见但严重的结核病形式。我们报告了两名患者，他们的脑部磁共振成像（MRI）显示有单个大病灶。由于神经影像学检查结果提示为脑肿瘤，两名患者均接受了神经外科手术以切除肿块病变。后来经组织病理学检查诊断为结核瘤。我们想强调的是，脑结核瘤可酷似恶性脑肿瘤，因为脑结核瘤的临床、实验室和放射学特征并无特异性。
