Intracranial tuberculoma manifesting during treatment.

Tuberculoma is one of the commonest intracranial space occupying lesions in children in India and is known to respond well to antituberculous treatment (ATT). One peculiar characteristic is appearance of new tuberculomas or expansion of already existing ones in patients who were on ATT and were responding well. Thirty two such cases have been reported in the English literature(l) but only one such case is reported in the Indian literature(2) though there are two Indian reports published in other foreign journals(3,4). We hereby report a patient with miliary tuberculosis in whom intracranial tuberculoma manifested during chemotherapy, while the other manifestations of the disease were satisfactorily responding.