Calvarial tuberculosis: two cases in children.
Clemax Couto Sant'AnnaPedro Luiz Ferreira PerineiAna Carolina Machado de PessôaEkaterini Simões GoudourisAna Cristina Cisne FrotaPublished in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo (2020)
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.
Keyphrases
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv aids
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- antiretroviral therapy
- hepatitis c virus
- hiv infected
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- hiv positive
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- systematic review
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- mental health
- hiv testing
- bone regeneration
- adverse drug
- squamous cell carcinoma
- drug induced
- smoking cessation