학술논문
Calvarial tuberculosis: two cases in children
Document Type
report
Author
Source
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo. January 2020 62
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
0036-4665
Abstract
Tuberculosis of the skull or calvarial tuberculosis (CTB) is rare. The literature until 2019 reported less than 60 cases of CTB in childhood. The authors describe two patients with CTB associated with other manifestations of TB, such as: spine and rib injuries, peripheral adenopathy, hepatic and splenic involvement who improved with chemotherapy. The patients were a four-year-old and an eight-year-old child, whose diagnoses were confirmed by histopathological, bacteriological or molecular investigation. Both were not infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and did not need orthopedic treatment.