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KMID : 0351219930250030265
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Korean Journal of Infectious Diseases
1993 Volume.25 No. 3 p.265 ~ p.269
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Two Cases of Tuberculous Spinal Arachoiditis Diagnosed by MRI
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기석현/양철우/유순집/우제영/김석영/최의진/강문원/방병기
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Abstract
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Tubcrculous arachnoiditis of the spine is a serious illness with no known definite pathogenesis and therapeutic modalities. It usually has been diagnosed by invasive procedures such as conventional myelography and CT myelography. We recently
experienced
two patients with arachnoiditis whose conditions were too poor to perform these invasive studies. One was CRT patient in the course of tuberculous meningitis and the other was the patient with comatous mentality and paraplegia which developed
during the
acute state of tuberculous menigitis. There patients were diagnosed tuberculous arachnoiditis by spine MRI and medicated antituberculous drug and steroid combination or steroid therapy alone with successful clinical improvement. We reviewed the
MRI
as a
diagnostic tool and steroid as a therapeutic regimen.
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