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Suprasellar tuberculoma developing during treatment of tuberculous meningitis requiring urgent surgical decompression
R Teoh1, W Poon, M J Humphries
1Department of Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT.
Journal of Neurology
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
An adult patient on treatment for tuberculous meningitis developed visual failure due to a tuberculoma compressing both optic nerves and chiasm. Although continued anti-tuberculous chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for intracranial tuberculoma, the rapid deterioration in vision necessitated urgent surgical decompression, which resulted in complete recovery of vision.