Author/Authors :
TOSUN, Özgür Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital - Department of Radiology, Turkey , KARABEKİR, Ercan Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital - Department of Radiology, Turkey , DİRİK, Ebru Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital - Department of Neurology, Turkey , ERDİL, Filiz Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital - Department of Radiology, Turkey , KARAOĞLANOĞLU, Mustafa Ankara Atatürk Training and Research Hospital - Department of Radiology, Turkey
Abstract :
Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis is an infectious disease process that continues to be a prevalent endemic problem in certain world regions. Intracranial tuberculomas are space-occupying masses of granulomatous tissue which generally emerge with the symptoms of meningeal irritation and increased intracranial pressure. We have reported magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of three cases of intracranial tuberculosis that were at different stages and locations. The involvement of the CNS by tuberculosis (Tbc) occurs often in the form of the tubercular meningitis and tuberculoma. The tuberculoma form is more common. The presence of a ring enhancing low signal lesions on T1 weighted images or a transient hyperintense signal on T2 weighted images in MRI of the patients who have tuberculosis elsewhere in the body or live in region where tuberculosis is endemic should suggest CNS tuberculosis.
