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J Pediatr Infect Dis 2016; 11(02): 042-047
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1593732
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

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

Suman Das
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Ashwati Nayar
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Dilip Kumar Paul
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Suprit Basu
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Sandip Sen
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Mala Bhattacharya
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Anish Chatterjee
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
,
Akansha Dalmia
1   Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B.C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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21 May 2016

06 September 2016

Publication Date:
12 October 2016 (online)

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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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