Seizures, Paraplegia, and Cough Unveiling Disseminated Tuberculosis

Miliary tuberculosis and disseminated aspergillosis.

A patient with concurrent miliary tuberculosis and disseminated aspergillosis is described.

Disseminated multi-organ tuberculosis.

A 58-year-old immunocompetent man presented with a 6-month history of cough, fever and swelling of the upper chest wall. Computed tomography showed involvement of the clavicle, sternum, lungs, pleura and pericardium. Trans-bronchial biopsy of the lungs, and surgical debridement with partial resection of the manubrium revealed infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Figs. 1 and 2). Fig. 1. Co...

Pancytopenia in disseminated tuberculosis.

A Rare Complication of Tuberculosis: Acute Paraplegia

BACKGROUND Tuberculous radiculomyelitis(TBRM) is one of the complications of neurological tuberculosis and includes cases of arachnoiditis, intradural spinal tuberculoma or granuloma, and spinal cord complications of tuberculous meningitis (TBM). Here, we report a case of TBRM which presented with acute paraplegia. CASE DETAILS Neurological examination on admission revealed flaccid paralysis,...

disseminated tuberculosis presenting as hypersplenism

background occurrence of hypersplenism in tb is very rare. we report a case of dtb with hypersplenism presentation. case presentation a 23year old man was admitted with complaints of fever, night sweats, anorexia, headache, shortness of breath, early satiety that had started 10 days ago. he had been well until 9 months ago, when early satiety developed for the first time. physical and ultrasono...