Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài:Frontal bone tuberculosis presenting with blindness in a 14-year-old girl: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Open Access Case report Frontal bone tuberculosis presenting with blindness in a 14-year-old girl a case report Mohammad Shameem1 Talha Saad1 Rakesh Bhargava1 Zuber Ahmad1 Nazish Fatima2 Haris Khan2 and Fakhrul Huda3 Addresses department of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases department of Microbiology and department of Neurosurgery Jawaherlal Nehru Medical College Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh . 202002 India Email MS - doctor_shameem123@ Corresponding author Received 10 March 2008 Accepted 23 February 2009 Published 17 June 2009 Journal ofMedical Case Reports 2009 3 8220 doi 1752-1947-3-8220 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 8220 2009 Shameem et al licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The occurrence of tuberculosis in the flat bones of the skull is very rare. Only eight cases of tuberculosis of the frontal bone have been reported in the literature. Case presentation A 14-year-old girl of Asian ethnicity presented with gradual loss of vision. A computed tomography scan of her head showed a diffuse homogeneously ill-defined hyperdense lesion of size X cm anteroposterior X thickness involving the right orbit. Biopsy of the lesion confirmed the presence of epithelioid cells and Langerhans giant cells with caseous material. After surgical debridement with antitubercular treatment the patient had an uneventful recovery. Conclusion Although rare tuberculosis can affect the flat bones of the skull. Tuberculosis of the frontal bone can be included in the differential diagnosis of blindness. Introduction The occurrence of tuberculosis TB in the flat bones of the skull is very
