[Cerebral miliary tuberculosis, a case study]
B B Maiga1, K Dembélé1, L Cissé1
1Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Point «G», Bamako, Mali.
Abstract:
Cerebral miliary tuberculosis is a rare and serious disease due to the hematogenic spread of bacillus tuberculous. It occurs more often in a debility context. Stereotaxic biopsy allows to establish the final diagnosis. But, in most of the cases it is presumptive based on clinical and biological features, and the regression of symptoms under anti tuberculosis treatment, of which depends the vital prognosis. We report the case of an immunocompetent patient, smoker who presented with cerebral military.
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