Abstract. A 17-year-old man who presented with progressive quadriparesis is reported. About 8 months prior to admission, he had miliary tuberculosis, and that improved with anti-tuberculous therapy. He had also developed tuberculous meningitis and tuberculous myelitis, respectively. He regularly took anti-tuberculous drugs until this illness. Neurological findings were compatible with cervical ...

Tuberculous spondylitis is a very rare disease, but it can result in bone destruction, kyphotic deformity, spinal instability, and neurologic complications unless early diagnosis and proper management are done. Because the most common symptom of tuberculous spondylitis is back pain, it can often be misdiagnosed. Atypical tuberculous spondylitis can be presented as a metastatic cancer or a prima...

This case report describes the features of a tuberculous subretinal abscess in a non-HIV patient. It includes the characterization of the lesion with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and fundus autofluorescence examination. SD-OCT and autofluorescence imaging showed external retinal involvement during development of the tuberculous subretinal abscess. Patients with tubercul...

In spite of recent advances in understanding of disease, tuberculosis still remains a major health problem, particularly in developing countries[1]. Central nervous system tuberculosis may present as commonly encountered tuberculous meningitis or tuberculous mass lesions and rare tuberculous brain abscess (TBA).TBA are rarely encountered even in countries where CNS tuberculosis is relatively co...

In patients without systemic manifestations of tuberculosis, isolated brainstem tuberculous abscesses are infrequently observed. The present study reports a rare case of two cystic tuberculous abscesses involving the dorsal aspect of the medulla oblongata in an otherwise healthy 14-year-old Chinese girl, whose primary complaint was respiratory distress. These lesions were successfully treated u...

The present study aims to test reliability of interferon gamma (IFNγ) as a diagnostic marker for tuberculous pleurisy. In this study, interleukin-8 (IL-8), tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and interferon gamma (IFN-γ) were therefore compared with adenosine deaminase (ADA) in exudative pleural effusion of inflammatory, malignant and tuberculous origin to determine their diagnostic value and whet...

Pyogenic and tuberculous spondylitis are common causes of infectious spondylitis. The purpose of this study was to determine the specific MRI findings that can differentiate these two types of infectious spondylitis. This study retrospectively analyzed MRIs in patients diagnosed with infectious spondylitis from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2009. Tuberculous spondylitis was diagnosed by histo...

A 26-year-old man with multiple intracranial masses widely attached to the dura presented with hypopituitarism and sexual impotence. Magnetic resonance imaging showed the lesions were isointense on the T1-weighted and hypointense on the T2-weighted images, and involved the bilateral sphenoid ridges, the convexity, and tentorial incisura. The lesion was partially removed via the right pterional ...