Calvarial Tuberculosis with Multiple Intracranial Tuberculomas: A Rare Association in a Severely Malnourished Child with Disseminated Tuberculosis

Abstract

A 4-year-old girl presented with prolonged fever for past 1 year, pallor, hepatosplenomegaly, single lytic lesion in the left frontal bone, headache, and pneumonia. Histopathology from the lytic lesion revealed chronic osteomyelitis and magnetic resonance spectroscopy showed multiple tuberculomas in the brain. She showed improvement with antitubercular drugs.

Keywords

calvarial tuberculosis - multiple tuberculomas - magnetic resonance spectroscopy - antitubercular drugs

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