title: Isolated meningeal tuberculoma mimicking meningioma: case report.
abstract: A 47-year-old German female patient is described with intracranial tuberculoma of the dura mater without history or evidence of tuberculosis and a negative tuberculin reaction. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging and angiography resembled a meningioma. Diagnosis was verified by histology and identification of mycobacterium tuberculosis. After removal of the granuloma and high-dose chemotherapy, the patient was free of disease. Tuberculoma of the dura mater is an extremely rare disease in the Western European population.
authors.affiliation: Abt. fuer Neuroradiologie, Universitaet, Wuerzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lindner
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Soerensen
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Toyka
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016862:Tuberculoma, Intracranial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000175:diagnosis*