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Solitary intracranial tuberculoma in patients without immuno-suppression: a report of three cases.

Niger Postgrad Med J

March 2006

Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and University of Ibadan College Hospital, Nigeria.

Background And Objective: Poverty, drug resistance and the advent of human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) have led to a recent upsurge in the incidence of tuberculosis including intracranial tuberculosis. In this article, we report 3 patients who had solitary brain tuberculomas and were otherwise healthy to underscore the importance of continuing vigilance for this disease.

Case Reports: Three patients (57 years, female; 52 years, male; 7 years male) presented to our unit with features of intracranial tumours.

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