[The diagnosis and treatment of intracranial tuberculoma].

OBJECTIVE

To improve the level of diagnosis and treatment of intracranial tuberculoma.

METHODS

Fourteen intracranial tuberculoma cases were hospitalized in the past five years, accounting for 0.9 per cent of the intracranial tumors in the same period. Five out of fourteen cases were treated conservatively while other nine were treated surgically. All the cases were received 6-month short-course anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy, among which only one case's treatment was prolonged to one year.

RESULT

All the cases had good outcome, none of them dead.

CONCLUSIONS

Operative indications of intracranial tuberculoma cases should be applied strictly. Good result could be gained via a short-course anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy, no matter operation was performed or not.