title: Suprasellar tuberculoma developing during treatment of tuberculous meningitis requiring urgent surgical decompression.
abstract: An adult patient on treatment for tuberculous meningitis developed visual failure due to a tuberculoma compressing both optic nerves and chiasm. Although continued anti-tuberculous chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for intracranial tuberculoma, the rapid deterioration in vision necessitated urgent surgical decompression, which resulted in complete recovery of vision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teoh
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Poon
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Humphries
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: O'Mahony
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D009897:Optic Chiasm / Q000601:surgery*; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000601:surgery*; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents