1. Tuberculous Meningitis of the Sylvian Fissure
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Klingensmith Wc rd and Datu J
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Miliary tuberculosis ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Fissure ,business.industry ,Meninges ,Computed tomography ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Normal limit ,Subarachnoid Space ,Lateralization of brain function ,Tuberculous meningitis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Tuberculosis, Meningeal ,medicine ,Humans ,Female ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Radiology ,Radionuclide Imaging ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business ,Perfusion ,Aged - Abstract
A 66-year-old woman had autopsy-proven miliary tuberculosis, with regional involvement of the meninges of the left Sylvian fissure. Radionuclide studies of the brain demonstrated the unusual findings of increased perfusion to the left hemisphere and linear increased activity corresponding to the left Sylvian fissure. Computed tomography of the brain was initially within normal limits at a time when the radionuclide study was clearly abnormal.
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- 1978
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