Atypical presentations of Neurotuberculosis

Sourya Acahrya; Samarth Shukla; Akshay Honmode; Pradyumna Gadewar   nbsp

doi:10.58739/jcbs/v04i1.12

Article

Atypical presentations of Neurotuberculosis

VIEWS 557
PDF 156

Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

DOI: 10.58739/jcbs/v04i1.12

Year: 2014, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 254-256

Case Report

Atypical presentations of Neurotuberculosis

Sourya Acahrya^*1, Samarth Shukla² , Akshay Honmode¹ , Pradyumna Gadewar ¹

1. Department of Medicine, JNMC, Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
2. Department of Pathology, JNMC, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding Author
E mail : [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Tuberculosis is considered to be one of the oldest of human diseases. It virtually involves majority of organ system in human body. Neurotuberculosis is known to involve meninges brain parenchyma, vertebral column, spinal cord either individually or in various combinations. Clinical features of neurotuberculosis depend on site of involvement. Atypical presentations are known. We present a case series of 3 patients of neurotuberculosis with atypical clinical presentation. Key words: Neurotuberculosis, Brain parenchyma, Vertebral column