RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Intra-medullary Tuberculomas: Case Series
JF International Journal of Spine Surgery
JO Int J Spine Surg
FD International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery
SP 2
DO 10.14444/4002
VO 11
IS 1
A1 N. Pradeep
A1 Raviraj Ghorpade
A1 Ravishankar Naik
A1 Prakash R Malur
YR 2017
UL http://ijssurgery.com//content/11/1/2.abstract
AB Intramedullary spinal tuberculoma is an extremely rare disease when compared to pulmonary, extrapulmonary and skeletal tuberculosis in developing countries. In the absence of systemic tuberculosis, clinical presentation is non distinctive from other intramedullary lesions. We report two cases of intramedullary tuberculoma both presenting with signs and symptoms of space occupying lesions. Surgical excision was done in both cases following which patients improved neurologically. Histopathological evaluation is essential to provide curative treatment.