Calvarial tuberculosis with parenchymal involvement

• Published in: Travel medicine and infectious disease Vol. 11; no. 5; pp. 329 - 331
• Main Authors: García-García, Concepción, Ibarra, Valvanera, Azcona-Gutiérrez, José M, Oteo, José A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 01-09-2013; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Bones; Brain Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Brain Diseases - metabolism; Brain Diseases - pathology; Calvarial; Collections; Developing countries; Elbow - microbiology; Female; Frontal Bone - diagnostic imaging; Frontal Bone - pathology; Humans; Infectious Disease; Infectious diseases; LDCs; Medical imaging; Middle Aged; Mortality; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification; Osteitis; Pakistan; Scalp - diagnostic imaging; Scalp - pathology; Skull; Surgery; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Travel medicine; Tuberculoma; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular - diagnostic imaging; Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular - microbiology; Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular - pathology; Tuberculoma; Skull; Tuberculosis; Osteitis; Calvarial
• ISSN: 1477-8939; 1873-0442
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.11.008

Summary Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the acid-fast bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis that usually affects the lungs although it may affect any organ. Tuberculous osteitis of the cranial bones is an uncommon manifestation of disseminated tuberculosis known as calvarial tuberculosis. Cases with parenchymal involvement are infrequent in the literature. We report a case of a patient with multiple osteolytic cranial lesions and a tuberculoma.