Acute tuberculous meningitis with fulminant fatal evolution in a 69-year-old man

BMJ Case Rep. 2012 Jun 8:2012:bcr0220125807. doi: 10.1136/bcr.02.2012.5807.

Authors

Gabriel Brisou¹, Thomas Perpoint, Gaël Bourdin, Tristan Ferry

Affiliation

¹ Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Aged
Diagnosis, Differential
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tuberculosis, Meningeal / diagnosis*
Tuberculosis, Meningeal / microbiology