Los tuberculomas del tronco del encéfalo son bastante inusuales, lo que representa menos del 5% de todos los tuberculomas intracraneales.

Se publican generalmente por sus manifestaciones clínicas

Se ha descrito un síndrome medular lateral (Verma y Sharma, 2011).

Se pueden presentar como una alteración de la motilidad ocular de forma aislada (Kumar y col., 2008; Lolly y col., 2011; Sharma y col., 2012).

Como síndrome de Millard Gublar (Sharif y col., 2010).

Bibliografía

Kumar, Sudhir, Garikapati Rajshekher, and Subhashini Prabhakar. 2008. “Isolated Bilateral Ptosis as the Presentation of Midbrain Tuberculoma.” Neurology India 56 (2) (June): 212–213.

Lolly, Pattnaik, Sarangi Rachita, and Mahapatra Satyasundar. 2011. “Ophthalmic Manifestations of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis–two Case Reports.” The Indian Journal of Tuberculosis 58 (4) (October): 196–198.

Sharif, Mumtaz, Vaishali More, and Sadhana Purandare. 2010. “Brainstem Tuberculoma–presenting as Millard Gublar Syndrome.” Indian Journal of Pediatrics 77 (6) (June): 707. doi:10.1007/s12098-010-0085-2.

Sharma, Kumudini, Vikas Kanaujia, Sushila Jaiswal, Anu Jain, Sheo Kumar, Arun Kumar Srivastava, and Awadhesh Kumar Jaiswal. 2012. “Brain Stem Tuberculoma Presenting with Isolated Ocular Motility Abnormality: A Series of Two Cases and Review of Literature.” Oman Journal of Ophthalmology 5 (1) (January): 61–63. doi:10.4103/0974-620X.94782.

Verma, R, and P Sharma. 2011. “Unusual Clinical Presentation of Tuberculoma.” Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 57 (2) (June): 143–144. doi:10.4103/0022-3859.81878.