TB Research

Rare manifestation of common disease

Krutika Tandon, Rahul Tandon, Charmy Parikh, Henil Upadhyay, Meet Patel

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care · 2021-11

Abstract

Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis is a life-threatening infection and has a wide variety of presentations in children. We report a case of intracranial tuberculomas with tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis in an adolescent girl with a recurrent transient ischemic attack (TIA) like unusual presentation managed with antitubercular therapy and anti-convulsant.

MeSH terms

  • Medicine
  • Presentation (obstetrics)
  • Tuberculosis
  • Disease
  • Girl
  • Pediatrics
  • Rare disease
  • Surgery
  • Intensive care medicine