Tuberculosis (TB): central nervous system types

Intracranial TB

• Tuberculous meningitis (TBM)
• Tuberculous encephalopathy
• Intracranial tuberculoma
• Intracranial tuberculous abscess
• Tuberculous vasculopathy
• Calvarial tuberculosis
• Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM)
• Miliary cerebral tuberculosis

Spinal TB

Non-osseous spinal tuberculoma

Peripheral TB

References

1. Garg RK. Tuberculosis of the central nervous system. Postgrad Med J 1999; 75:133-140.
2. Diyora B, Kumar R, Modgi R, Sharma A. Calvarial tuberculosis: a report of eleven patients. Neurol India 2009; 57:607-612.
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5. Wasay M, Arif H, Khealani B, Ahsan H. Neuroimaging of tuberculous myelitis: analysis of ten cases and review of literature. J Neuroimaging 2006; 16:197-205.
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