efficient tuberculosis treatment requires the use of good quality medicines. the present study developed a method of dosage by high performance liquid chromatography (hplc) coupled with the dissolution of a combination of fixed doses of four anti-tuberculous (isoniazid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol hydrochlorate, rifampicine). the elaborated protocol was thereafter used to assess the quality of med...

Tuberculous liver abscesses are rare. Paradoxical response in tuberculosis is common and occurred between 2 weeks and 12 weeks after anti-tuberculous medication. We report here a case of tuberculous liver abscess that developed in a paradoxical response during chemotherapy for tuberculous peritonitis in a 23-year-old male. He was hospitalized, complaining of ascites, epigastric pain. He was dia...

abstract pachymeningitis is a rare chronic disorder of the duramater caused by various infectious, autoimmune or malignant diseases. we report a child with chronic tuberculous pachymeningitis, who presented with clinical manifestations of meningitis with a compatible cerebrospinal fluid analysis. despite signs of progressive neurological involvement, extensive work-up done to rule out known cau...

Efficient tuberculosis treatment requires the use of good quality medicines. The present study developed a method of dosage by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) coupled with the dissolution of a combination of fixed doses of four anti-tuberculous (Isoniazid, Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol Hydrochlorate, Rifampicine). The elaborated protocol was thereafter used to assess the quality of med...

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 ...

SUMMARY Tuberculoma of the central nervous system is one of the rare and unusual form of Tuberculous in Iranian children, that often present with mass lesion. This is report A 14 months old boy, admitted because ahd fever, irritability, anorexics had right side hemiplegia for two months. Positive finding was tuberculin test and CT brain scan with 2 hyperdenc mass (Ring Shaped) in the posto-m...

A 5 year old girl with tuberculous meningitis developed progressive visual failure during in-patient anti-tuberculous chemotherapy due to an ophthochiasmatic tuberculoma. This was successfully managed by prolonged high-dose corticosteroids and continued anti-tuberculous therapy resulting in complete visual and psychosocial recovery.

Subphrenic abscess though a common presentation itself encountered in surgical practice due to various cause, tubercular subphrenic the absence of coexisting tuberculous abdomen presenting as complication pulmonary tuberculosis is extremely rare. Only very few cases have been reported an extrapulmonary manifestation so far. We report case isolated sub-diaphragmatic which responded well with ant...

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 ...