[Miliary tuberculosis and cerebral tuberculomas. Apropos a case]

An Med Interna. 1993 Sep;10(9):443-5.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

We present a case of a 45-year-old patient with miliary tuberculosis (MI), whose initial clinical symptomatology was uncertain. A few weeks after the beginning of chemotherapy, and in the face a Jacksonian crisis, cerebral tuberculomas were detected with CAT. The interesting thing in this case is to highlight that the diagnosis of MT anatomopathologic after pulmonary biopsy with mini-thoracotomy and that the cerebral complication could be classified within the so-called "paradoxical worsening" as it has been documented in the literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
  • Biopsy
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Brain Diseases / drug therapy
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Humans
  • Lung / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Tuberculoma / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculoma / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis, Miliary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Miliary / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents