Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
Objective and Importance. We present the rare occurrence of multiple dural-based tuberculomas mimicking leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a young immunocompetent patient. Clinical Presentation. A 36-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of generalized epileptic activity and altered perception...
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| author | Hasan Kocaeli Özgür Taşkapılıoğlu Elif Başaran Ahmet Karaoğlu Ahmet Bekar |
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| description | Objective and Importance. We present the rare occurrence of multiple dural-based tuberculomas mimicking leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a young immunocompetent patient. Clinical Presentation. A 36-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of generalized epileptic activity and altered perception. Neurological examination was remarkable for bilateral Babinski's sign. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed multiple dural-based enhancing lesions with cerebral edema. Intervention. A right frontal craniotomy was performed for diagnosis. Histological examination revealed multiple confluent necrotizing and nonnecrotizing granulomas with giant cells which was consistent with tuberculosis (TB), and the patient was placed on anti-TB therapy for 24 months. Conclusion. To the best of our knowledge isolated diffuse involvement of the dura mater by TB, mimicking leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, as the sole manifestation of disease has not been reported before. Since pachymeningeal TB is rarely suspected when atypical radiological appearance is combined with the absence of systemic disease, biopsy is inevitably required for diagnosis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-23fc3cee3db84a949f98843d677c51cf2025-08-20T02:04:14ZengWileyCase Reports in Neurological Medicine2090-66682090-66762011-01-01201110.1155/2011/581230581230Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal CarcinomatosisHasan Kocaeli0Özgür Taşkapılıoğlu1Elif Başaran2Ahmet Karaoğlu3Ahmet Bekar4Department of Neurosurgery, Uludağ University Medical Faculty, Görükle, 16059 Bursa, TurkeyDepartment of Neurosurgery, Uludağ University Medical Faculty, Görükle, 16059 Bursa, TurkeyDepartment of Neurosurgery, Uludağ University Medical Faculty, Görükle, 16059 Bursa, TurkeyDepartment of Neurosurgery, Uludağ University Medical Faculty, Görükle, 16059 Bursa, TurkeyDepartment of Neurosurgery, Uludağ University Medical Faculty, Görükle, 16059 Bursa, TurkeyObjective and Importance. We present the rare occurrence of multiple dural-based tuberculomas mimicking leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a young immunocompetent patient. Clinical Presentation. A 36-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of generalized epileptic activity and altered perception. Neurological examination was remarkable for bilateral Babinski's sign. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed multiple dural-based enhancing lesions with cerebral edema. Intervention. A right frontal craniotomy was performed for diagnosis. Histological examination revealed multiple confluent necrotizing and nonnecrotizing granulomas with giant cells which was consistent with tuberculosis (TB), and the patient was placed on anti-TB therapy for 24 months. Conclusion. To the best of our knowledge isolated diffuse involvement of the dura mater by TB, mimicking leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, as the sole manifestation of disease has not been reported before. Since pachymeningeal TB is rarely suspected when atypical radiological appearance is combined with the absence of systemic disease, biopsy is inevitably required for diagnosis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/581230 |
| spellingShingle | Hasan Kocaeli Özgür Taşkapılıoğlu Elif Başaran Ahmet Karaoğlu Ahmet Bekar Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis Case Reports in Neurological Medicine |
| title | Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis |
| title_full | Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis |
| title_fullStr | Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis |
| title_short | Multiple Dural Tuberculomas Presenting as Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis |
| title_sort | multiple dural tuberculomas presenting as leptomeningeal carcinomatosis |
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