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Why Have The Lesions Spread In A TBM Affected Female?

Hello doctors,
My wife was diagonised with TBM and is on AKT-4 for the past 6 months, now a CT scan was done and in that, the lesions have spread, but her general conditions have improved, Now she has no headaches or fever. But why has these lesions spread ? kindly advice.
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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If the patient is having tubercular infection in the brain and lesion is there, so once the treatment start then the lesion also start regressing or becoming calcified slowly but spreading of lesion is very unlikely, hope this information helps.
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Why Have The Lesions Spread In A TBM Affected Female?

HI Well come to HCM If the patient is having tubercular infection in the brain and lesion is there, so once the treatment start then the lesion also start regressing or becoming calcified slowly but spreading of lesion is very unlikely, hope this information helps.