Gropper M R, Schulder M, Duran H L, Wolansky L
Section of Neurological Surgery and Neuroradiology, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, Newark.
J Neurosurg. 1994 Dec;81(6):927-31. doi: 10.3171/jns.1994.81.6.0927.
There are only scattered case reports of intracranial tuberculosis in industrialized nations; brainstem tuberculoma is even more unusual, accounting for 2.5% to 8% of all intracranial tuberculoma. In developing nations, however, central nervous system tuberculosis (CNS-TB) is not rare and intracranial tuberculoma may account for 5% to 30% of all intracranial masses. The authors present two cases of CNS-TB with expansion to brainstem tuberculoma in patients who were undergoing treatment and had no known prior exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
在工业化国家，颅内结核仅有零星的病例报告；脑干结核瘤更为罕见，占所有颅内结核瘤的2.5%至8%。然而，在发展中国家，中枢神经系统结核（CNS-TB）并不罕见，颅内结核瘤可能占所有颅内肿块的5%至30%。作者报告了两例CNS-TB扩展至脑干结核瘤的病例，患者正在接受治疗，既往无已知结核分枝杆菌暴露史。
