Intra-medullary Tuberculomas: Case series

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Pradeep N, Raviraj Ghorpade, Ravishankar Naik and Prakash R Malur

SSIMS & RC, India

: J Spine Neurosurg

Abstract

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Intramedullary Spinal Tuberculoma is an extremely rare disease when compared to pulmonary, extrapulmonary, and skeletal tuberculosis in developing countries. In the absence of systemic tuberculosis, the clinical presentation is non-distinctive from other intramedullary lesions. We report two cases of Intramedullary Tuberculoma both presenting with signs and symptoms of space-occupying lesions. Surgical excision was done in both cases following which patients improved neurologically. Histopathological evaluation is essential to provide curative treatment.

Biography

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Pradeep N is currently working as a consultant in the department of neurosurgery, SSIMS & RC Davangere Karnataka India. He graduated from Rajiv Gandhi University, Bangalore, Karnataka. For a brief period of one year, He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Surgery JJM Medical College, Davangere, Karnataka, India. Following that, He completed Mch in Neurosurgery from KLE University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. He has an overwhelming desire to serve the poor and needy, therefore I have operated on plenty of Neurosurgical patients under the scheme for poor people provided by the Government of India.