Isolated meningeal tuberculoma mimicking meningioma: case report.
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.
Lindner
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Abt. fuer Neuroradiologie, Universitaet, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Schneider
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Hofmann
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Soerensen
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N
Toyka
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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*