Cerebral abscesses of tuberculosis origin: study of 8 cases at the University Hospital of Conakry

Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery

Table 1 General patients’ characteristics

	Case no. 1	Case no. 2	Case no. 3	Case no. 4	Case no. 5	Case no. 6	Case no. 7	Case no. 8
Age/sex	9 years, male	37 years, male	50 years, female	41 years, male	24 years, female	31 years, male	15 years, male	59 years, female
History of tuberculosis	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Notion of contagion	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
ITR	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative
Extracerebral tuberculosis	No	Yes, urogenital	Yes, pulmonary	Yes, pulmonary	No	Yes, pulmonary	No	Yes, pulmonary
HIV serology	Negative	Negative	Negative	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive
Clinic	Fever, headache, vomiting, confusion	Headache, vomiting, slimming, focal sign, confusion	Fever, vomiting, slimming, focal sign, coma	Fever, headache, focal sign, confusion	Fever, headache, vomiting, slimming, focal sign, coma	Headache, focal sign, convulsions, coma, slimming	Headache, focal sign, convulsions	Fever, focal sign, convulsions, coma
Antituberculosis treatment (duration)	21 months	21 months	21 months	21 months	2 months	21 months	21 months	1 month
Surgery	Puncture, exeresis	Puncture	Puncture	Puncture	Puncture	Puncture	Puncture	Puncture, exeresis
Evolution	Favorable	Favorable	Average (hemiparesis)	Average (epilepsy)	Death	Average (epilepsy)	Favorable	Death