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Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System

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Tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis (TB) has affected humans since antiquity. References to what is believed to be tuberculous infection were made in some writings from ancient Egypt and Babylon. Typical spine deformity of Pott’s disease appear in numerous drawings of hunchbacks on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs. By morbid anatomy, spinal TB can be traced back to about 2000 B.C., as was shown by psoas abscess found in a mummy.

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  1. Department of Neurosciences, King Faisal Specialist Hospital an Research Center, P.O. Box 3354, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia

    M. Zuheir Al-Kawi MD, FACP (Senior Consultant Neurologist & Deputy Chairman)

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  1. Department of Medicine, Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, 11159, Saudi Arabia

    M. Monir Madkour

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Al-Kawi, M.Z. (2004). Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System. In: Madkour, M.M. (eds) Tuberculosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18937-1_32

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