Indian Journal of Dermatology (Jan 2011)

Multifocal tuberculosis verrucosa cutis

  • Jiby Rajan,
  • Ashok Thomas Mathai,
  • P.V.S Prasad,
  • P K Kaviarasan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.82500
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 56, no. 3
pp. 332 – 334

Abstract

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Tuberculosis has been a well-known affliction of human kind, since antiquity. Cutaneous tuberculosis constitutes only a small proportion of extra pulmonary tuberculosis and multifocal involvement of cutaneous tuberculosis is an even rarer manifestation. We report one such case of multifocal tuberculosis verrucosa cutis in a 17-year old male patient in the absence of any primary tuberculous focus.

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