title: [Intracranial tuberculoma: a case report and review of the literature].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cerebral tuberculoma constitutes an important neurotuberculosis clinical form with high morbimortality and important diagnoses difficulty.
  
  
  METHODS
  Only giant cerebral tuberculoma case in 3 years-old man who present dizziness and surgically treated by diagnostic suspicion of cerebral tumor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cerebral tuberculomas can often be confused with cerebral tumors when they are not included in differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, España. aguillen@hsjdbcn.org
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillén-Quesada
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: García-Armengol
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pérez-Muñoz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gargallo
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: García-García
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Costa-Clara
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D016862:Tuberculoma, Intracranial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery