Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar

Background: Tuberculosis is uncommonly located in the skin, corresponding to 1 to 2% of extrapulmonary forms. We report a 61-year-old woman, referred due to a two months history of erythematous plaques covered with honey-colored crusts in the left preauricular region and below the chin. The lesions...

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Autores principales:	Varas M,Carmen, Nieme S,Constanza, Barría M,Carlos
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2012
Materias:	Cutaneous Lupus vulgaris Mycobacterium infections Tuberculosis
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720120004000102013-11-06Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonarVaras M,CarmenNieme S,ConstanzaBarría M,Carlos Cutaneous Lupus vulgaris Mycobacterium infections Tuberculosis Background: Tuberculosis is uncommonly located in the skin, corresponding to 1 to 2% of extrapulmonary forms. We report a 61-year-old woman, referred due to a two months history of erythematous plaques covered with honey-colored crusts in the left preauricular region and below the chin. The lesions were previously treated as pyoderma with poor response. She was otherwise healthy, without any other symptom. Skin biopsy showed exudative tuberculoid granulomas with caseation necrosis. Koch culture was positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Complementary studies ruled out other foci. Lupus vulgaris was diagnosed and antituberculous therapy started, achieving regression of cutaneous lesions.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.140 n.4 20122012-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872012000400010es10.4067/S0034-98872012000400010
institution	Scielo Chile
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language	Spanish / Castilian
topic	Cutaneous Lupus vulgaris Mycobacterium infections Tuberculosis
spellingShingle	Cutaneous Lupus vulgaris Mycobacterium infections Tuberculosis Varas M,Carmen Nieme S,Constanza Barría M,Carlos Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar
description	Background: Tuberculosis is uncommonly located in the skin, corresponding to 1 to 2% of extrapulmonary forms. We report a 61-year-old woman, referred due to a two months history of erythematous plaques covered with honey-colored crusts in the left preauricular region and below the chin. The lesions were previously treated as pyoderma with poor response. She was otherwise healthy, without any other symptom. Skin biopsy showed exudative tuberculoid granulomas with caseation necrosis. Koch culture was positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Complementary studies ruled out other foci. Lupus vulgaris was diagnosed and antituberculous therapy started, achieving regression of cutaneous lesions.
author	Varas M,Carmen Nieme S,Constanza Barría M,Carlos
author_facet	Varas M,Carmen Nieme S,Constanza Barría M,Carlos
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title	Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar
title_short	Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar
title_full	Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar
title_fullStr	Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar
title_full_unstemmed	Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar
title_sort	lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2012
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Lupus vulgar: caso infrecuente de tuberculosis extrapulmonar

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