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Tuberculous meningitis, also known as TB meningitis or tubercular meningitis, is a specific type of bacterial meningitis caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of the meninges—the system of membranes which envelop the central nervous system.
Sometimes a hypodense central area is seen instead of calcification. [25] When considering other potential intracranial masses in a differential diagnosis, such as cysticercosis , pyogenic abscess, and neoplastic lesions, tuberculoma can be identified by its larger size (>2 cm), edema, and irregular border.
Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. [1] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [1]
Today After 17 years, Hoda Kotb is officially bidding farewell to the Today show. Kotb, 60, appeared on her final episode of the NBC morning show on Friday, January 10. The day started off on a ...
Kathie Lee Gifford is saying goodbye to "Today." In an email memo sent to NBC staffers on Tuesday, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim announced that Gifford would be leaving the network's premiere ...
Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway , spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.
The virus causing cold sores may also be linked to Alzheimer’s risk, a new study suggests. Image credit: alvaro gonzalez/Getty Images. This article originally appeared on Medical News Today
A Rich focus is a tuberculous granuloma occurring within the cortex or meninges of the brain that ruptures into the subarachnoid space, causing tuberculous meningitis. [1] The Rich focus is named for Arnold Rice Rich, a pathologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who along with his colleague Howard McCordock first described the post-mortem finding of caseous foci within the cerebral cortex or ...