Clinical Study on Tuberculous Meningitis (Correlation with brain CT findings).
- Author:
Jae Kyue NO
1
;
Ki Hyun JANG
;
Man Wook SEO
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, Seoul National University.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Adult;
Brain*;
Diagnosis;
Humans;
Hydrocephalus;
Infarction;
Seoul;
Tuberculoma;
Tuberculosis, Meningeal*
- From:Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
1985;3(2):187-193
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We tried to correlate brain CT findings with clinical state at admission and outcome at discharge in 42 selected cases from 94 adult patients under the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis at Seoul National University Hospital during last four years from 1981. Their clinical state at admission and outcome at discharge were classified into three groups by severity of symptoms, respectively. The final outcome of them were well correlated with their clinical states at admission. Observed abnormal brain CT findings in this series were hydrocephalus (74%), dirthy cisternal enhancement (52%), infraction (38%), periventricular low density (36%), and tuberculoma (19%). The poorer the clinical state at admission and outcome at discharge, the more frequent the abnormal brain CT findings, especially of periventricular low density and infraction. But periventricular low density without infarction seemed to affect more deleterious effect on clinical state at admission than on final outcome.
