Tuberculous Pachymeningitis Presenting as a Diffused Dural Thickening in a Patient with Chronic Headache and Recurrent Neurological Abnormalities for More than a Decade: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature.
Chathuranga Lakmal FonsekaT E KanakkahewaS D A L SinghapuraJ S HewavithanaL P KolambageHerath Mudiyanselage Meththananda HerathK D PathiranaThilak Priyantha WeerarathnaPublished in: Case reports in infectious diseases (2018)
Primary tuberculous pachymeningitis should be suspected in a patient complaining of prolonged headache with focal neurological signs when MRI evidence of dural thickening is detected, and another focus of tuberculosis was not found. Prompt suspicion with image-guided dural biopsy for histology would help to confirm the diagnosis.