Five cases of intracranial tuberculoma in Asian adults are described, all of whom presented with epilepsy. The computerised tomographic (CAT) scanner displayed the lesions particularly well, and their characteristics are described. Only two cases were explored surgically, but triple antituberculous chemotherapy has the scan abnormalities in all of them to resolve completely. It is concluded tha...

A 45-year old man, who had tuberculosis five years ago presented with paresthesia, decreased proprioception, and gait disturbance in the lower extremity which were aggravated for a month. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed the T3-7 intradural extramedullary fibrotic mass with dark signal intensity on T2-weighted images. The yellowish material in the thick fibrous mass was confirmed as caseous ...

Introduction: Ring-enhancing lesions is the most common abnormality faced in neuro-imaging. Imaging modalities commonly used to diagnose such are Computed Tomography (CT) and MRI. However, these considered challenging for radiologists. Diagnosing ring enhancing by conventional MRI challenging, especially when neoplastic, non-neoplastic infections be differentiated. Differentiation between tuber...

Seizures in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients can be caused by a wide variety of opportunistic infections, and, especially in developing countries, tuberculosis (TB) should be high on the differential. In India, TB is the most common opportunistic infection in HIV and it can have several different central nervous system manifestations, including intracranial tuberculomas. In this case...

We report a case of a Somali refugee who presented in the second trimester of her first pregnancy with a four-week history of gradual right-sided sensomotoric hemisyndrome including facial palsy and left-sided paresis of the oculomotorius nerve causing drooping of the left eyelid and double vision. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging revealed a solitary brainstem lesion. Upon detection of hilar ...

A case of a pontine tuberculoma in a 12-year-old male from Somalia is presented. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging, performed in Abu Dhabi 1 month before admission in Germany revealed a tumorous lesion in the pons with surrounding edema; a presumptive diagnosis of a pontine glioma was made. Chest radiograph disclosed a pulmonary infiltrate with cavitation, as well as hilar and left mediastinal...

The term tuberculoma of the lung is used here to describe a rounded, homogeneous radiographic opacity, with well-defined borders, one centimetre or more in diameter, of a tuberculous nature; no histological pattern is inferred. In the past such shadows have been called Assmann's foci, solitary or round foci, coin lesions, nodular tuberculosis, and localized caseous pneumonias, but none of these...

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 ...

Tuberculosis is highly prevalent in developing countries. Meningitis is by far the most frequent manifestation of tuberculosis in the central nervous system. Infrequently they may present as intracranial masses. Intracranial tuberculomas, either multiple or single, pose great diagnostic challenge because the appearance may resemble many other non-infectious and infectious conditions and particu...

Three patients with verified intracranial tuberculomas are reported. One patient presented with attacks of hydrocephalus initially diagnosed erroneously as migraine, another had multiple tuberculomas and a fourth tuberculoma became apparent during treatment with antituberculous therapy. The third patient presented with a frontal lobe syndrome and the postoperative recovery was complicated by th...