EC Clinical and Medical Case Reports

Case Report Volume 7 Issue 4 - 2024

Optochiasmatic Arachnoiditis Tuberculous: A Rare Case Report

Soukaina El Amrani*, L Chat, N Allali and Siham El Haddad

Department of Radiology, Children Hospital of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Morocco

*Corresponding Author: Soukaina El Amrani, Department of Radiology, Children Hospital of Rabat, Mohammed V University, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Morocco.
Received: February 14, 2024; Published: April 11, 2024




Optochiasmatic arachnoiditis is one of the complications occurring secondary to tuberculous meningitis. We report the case of a 13 years old child who presented with severe frontal headaches, fever, blurred vision, ptosis, and bilateral nystagmus whom clinical and radiological findings were consistent with the tuberculous opto-chiasmatic arachnoiditis.

Keywords: Tuberculous Meningitis; Chiasmatic Region; MR Features

Soukaina El Amrani., et al. "Optochiasmatic Arachnoiditis Tuberculous: A Rare Case Report." EC Clinical and Medical Case Reports   7.4 (2024): 01-03.

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