Tuberculoma of the central nervous system in Eastern Nigeria

Although tuberculosis is prevalent in Eastern Nigeria, only 5 cases of tuberculoma of the central nervous system (CNS) were recorded over a 5 year period in a hospital in which about 4000 tuberculosis patients were treated. All the patients were Igbo males. In 4 cases the tuberculoma was supratentorial and in 1 case there was an extradural extraosseous spinal tuberculoma.