Your diagnosis? A 12-year-old girl with latent tuberculosis presenting with nausea, vomiting and increasing frontal headache.

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Category Primary study
JournalEuropean journal of pediatrics
Year 2009
A 12-year-old girl with latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and currently receiving prophylaxis with isoniazid presented with nausea, vomiting and increasing frontal headache. Toxicity to the anti-tuberculosis drug was suspected, but her symptoms persisted after isoniazid withdrawal. A computed tomography (CT) scan showed a brain mass to be present.
Epistemonikos ID: 96c4aef127f1f296e030fef35bd1db329cf576ed
First added on: Sep 21, 2024