CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research (Jan 2017)

Calvarial tuberculosis presenting as multiple osteolytic soft tissue lesions

  • Reddy Ravikanth,
  • Sunil Mathew,
  • Robert Patrick Selvam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/cjhr.cjhr_36_17
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 278 – 279

Abstract

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Primary tuberculosis (TB) of the skull is a very rare entity scantily described in literature with 0.2%–1.3% of cases. The different radiological forms of calvarial TB described are - circumscribed lesions of the sclerotic and lytic type and diffuse TB of the cranium. Treatment for skull TB includes antituberculous therapy along with appropriate surgical intervention. Here, we present a case of calvarial TB presenting as multiple osteolytic soft tissue lesions.

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