title: [Two cases of tuberculosis of the skull cap (author's transl)].
abstract: The authors report two cases of tuberculosis of the skull cap. The first in a Black African with heterozygous sickle cell disease also presenting with: tuberculosis of the cervical lymph nodes, subcutaneous frontal tumefactions bacteriologically confirmed to be of tuberculous origin, multiple lacunae of the vault from the same origin; the second case is an Asian woman having a multifocal tuberculous osteitis involving the skull, spine, pelvis and probably the same affection in the spleen. These cases are a reminder that the principal features of tuberculosis of the skull vault are very often associated with other tuberculous lesions, and to the problems of diagnosis it entails; the existence of a subcutaneous tumefaction of the vault or of any accessible site one can aspirate and/or perform biopsy constitutes a diagnostic aid.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008302:Mali / Q000208:ethnology; D012886:Skull; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology
vernacular_title: L'ostéite tuberculeuse de la voûte crânienne.