Miliary brain tuberculosis: a rare case report

Vuk Aleksić; Nenad Lalović; Milija Mijajlović

doi:10.1007/s10072-025-08181-z

Miliary brain tuberculosis: a rare case report

Neurol Sci. 2025 Aug;46(8):4097-4099. doi: 10.1007/s10072-025-08181-z. Epub 2025 Apr 12.

Authors

Vuk Aleksić^{1

2}, Nenad Lalović^{3

4}, Milija Mijajlović^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Hospital Center Zemun, Vukova 9, Belgrade, Serbia. aleksicvuk@hotmail.com.
² Facult of Medicine Foča, Universitry of East Sarajevo, Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina. aleksicvuk@hotmail.com.
³ Facult of Medicine Foča, Universitry of East Sarajevo, Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
⁴ Department of Surgery, University Hospital Foča, Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
⁵ Neurology Clinic, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgarde, Serbia.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgarde, Belgrade, Serbia.

PMID: 40220256
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-025-08181-z

Abstract

We present a rare case of a 72-year-old patient with miliar tuberculosis of the brain, diagnosed and treated under specific conditions during the peak of the COVID- 19 pandemic.

Keywords: Brain tuberculosis; Miliar tuberculosis; Tuberculosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
Brain / diagnostic imaging
COVID-19*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Tuberculosis, Miliary* / diagnosis
Tuberculosis, Miliary* / diagnostic imaging
Tuberculosis, Miliary* / drug therapy

Substances

Antitubercular Agents