TY - JOUR
AR - SCR-2020-8-113
TI - Racemose Pattern of Intracranial Tuberculoma at the Basal, Suprasellar and Perimesencephalic Cisterns – A Case Report
AU - Sarkar , S
AU - Saumitra , Sarkar
AU - A , Dey
AU - MMH , Morshed
JO - Surgical Case Reports
PY - 2020
DA - Tue 11, Aug 2020
SN - 2613-5965
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.SCR.2020.08.13
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/racemose-pattern-of-intracranial-tuberculoma-at-the-basal-suprasellar_SCR-2020-8-113 
KW -  Racemose patterns, tuberculoma, cisterns, antitubercular chemotherapy
AB - Central nervous system tuberculosis may present as meningitis, tuberculoma, abscesses, cerebritis or miliary
tuberculosis. The most common site of tuberculoma has been reported to be at the grey-white matter junction
and the periventricular region. They may even be found in the epidural, subdural and subarachnoid spaces,
and the brain stem. Although tuberculosis is very common in developing countries, with the increasing
prevalence of immunosuppression owing to human immunodeficiency virus and patients surviving
chemotherapy or organ transplantation, the incidence of tubercular infections has been rising in developed
countries. The authors report a 15-year-old boy of intracranial tuberculoma at the basal, suprasellar and
perimesencephalic cisterns in a patient. Tuberculous involvement was noted in a racemose pattern in the
subarachnoid space. The patient’s clinical symptoms resolved with no recurrence of symptoms but only
persistence of the radiological abnormality after antitubercular chemotherapy.