Tuberculoma of the central nervous system in Eastern Nigeria.
Although tuberculosis is prevalent in Eastern Nigeria, only 5 cases of tuberculoma of the central nervous system (CNS) were recorded over a 5 year period in a hospital in which about 4000 tuberculosis patients were treated. All the patients were Igbo males. In 4 cases the tuberculoma was supratentorial and in 1 case there was an extradural extraosseous spinal tuberculoma.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D004388:Dura Mater; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000453:epidemiology*