Brain tuberculoma [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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=====Brain tuberculoma=====
Brain tuberculoma has previously accounted for up to a third of new intracranial lesions in areas endemic with tuberculosis, but is unexpected in the United States and other Western countries with improved disease control. 

Is important to consider this diagnosis in at-risk patients, even with no definitive pulmonary involvement. 

 With resurgence of tuberculosis cases in the United States and other Western countries, intracerebral tuberculoma should remain a diagnostic consideration in at-risk patients with new space occupying lesions. Mass lesions causing neurological sequelae can be safely addressed surgically and followed with antituberculosis therapy
((Lober RM, Veeravagu A, Singh H. Brain tuberculoma in a non-endemic area.
Infect Dis Rep. 2013 Jan 28;5(1):e1. doi: 10.4081/idr.2013.e1. eCollection 2013
Jan 22. PubMed PMID: 24470952.
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