Dural scrofula.
A middle-aged woman presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies, hemiparesis, and CSF pleocytosis had tuberculous infection of the cranial dura mater at autopsy. This is the first description of dural scrofula in modern medical literature.
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205-2182.
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JD
Glass
P S
PS
Becker
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Moses
J C
JC
Troncoso
D001344:Autopsy; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology