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The incidence of pineal calcification was studied by reviewing skull radiographs of 1400 patients admitted to a major neurosurgical centre at Karachi over an eight year period. The total frequency as well as age and sex distribution of pineal calcification were worked out and compared with frequency and age distribution of calcification reported in Western and Eastern races by different workers.
The authors describe a case of tuberculous cerebral abscess of the frontal lobe that developed 1 year after an episode of acute miliary tuberculosis. The development of such a lesion indicates a persistence of infection and an immunological breakdown which may partly have been due to protein malnutrition.