MRI CAPACITY IN DIAGNOSING NEUROTUBERCULOSIS

Abstract

Tuberculosis is one of the actual socially important diseases. The most severe and prognostic unfavorable manifestation of tuberculosis is the tuberculosis of the meninx and central nervous system, which is difficult to diagnose. The magnetic resonance imaging method is one of the most perspective one in diagnosing the tuberculosis of the central nervous system. The MRI-semiotics of the most typical clinical form of the central nervous system tuberculosis has been presented: tuberculous meningitis, tuberculous meningoencephalitis, tuberculous meningoencephalomyelitis, CNS tuberculoma. The MRI investigation of the brain promotes increasing the central nervous system tuberculosis diagnosis level, and consequently, effective treatment of such patients.