Suprasellar tuberculoma developing during treatment of tuberculous meningitis requiring urgent surgical decompression

✍ Scribed by R. Teoh; W. Poon; M. J. Humphries; G. O'Mahony

• Book ID: 104718275
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 272 KB
• Volume: 235
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-5354
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00314183

✦ Synopsis

An adult patient on treatment for tuberculous meningitis developed visual failure due to a tuberculoma compressing both optic nerves and chiasm. Although continued anti-tuberculous chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for intracranial tuberculoma, the rapid deterioration in vision necessitated urgent surgical decompression, which resulted in complete recovery of vision.