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Tuberculosis, Meningeal/drug therapy , Adrenal Cortex Hormones/administration & dosage , Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use , Antibiotics, Antitubercular/administration & dosage , Antibiotics, Antitubercular/therapeutic use , Drug Administration Schedule , Drug Therapy, Combination , Humans , Infant , Male , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Tuberculosis, Meningeal/diagnostic imagingABSTRACT
Two cases with a sarcoid-like disorder apparently restricted to the intracranial optic nerve and the adjacent dura mater are described, doublilng the number of reported cases. In both instances there were unilateral visual loss and unusual radiographic changes in the optic canal area. Biopsy samples showed localised infiltration of tissues with non-caseating tubercles containing epithelioid and multinucleated giant cells.
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Granuloma/pathology , Optic Nerve , Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/pathology , Aged , Diagnosis, Differential , Dura Mater/pathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Optic Nerve/pathology , Orbit/pathology , Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/diagnosis , Sarcoidosis/diagnosis , Sarcoidosis/pathologyABSTRACT
Computer tomography was performed in 29 patients with intra- or extracerebral lesions and the results evaluated retrospectively and compared with angiography, operation or autopsy findings. Many subdural haematomas were difficult to distinguish and in two cases it was impossible. Angiography proved to be more certain. In all cases the intracerebral heamatoma was considerably more evident at computer tomography than at angiography and for contusions, the information provided is fully comparable with that by angiography.
