Revista de la Facultad de Medicina (Jul 2000)

Tuberculosis: compromiso pulmonar y extrapulmonar cutánea y ganglionar)

  • Mildred Páez,
  • Myrian Consuelo Neira,
  • Pablo Latorre,
  • Michel Faizal

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 48, no. 3
pp. 130 – 133

Abstract

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We present the case of a rnale, 28 year old who consulted for fever, loss of weight and axillary ulcer. Clinically had two ski n lesions where cutaneous tuberculosis was proven (lupus vulgaris-scrofuloderma). The ski n lesions led to the diagnosis of lung tuberculosis and tuberculous adenitis. In this case all the diagnostic criteria for cutaneous tuberculosis were completed: presence of active tuberculosis in another place, presence of acid alcohol resistant bacilluses in the lesion, positive reaction to tuberculin test, physical signs and appropiate answer to the treatment.

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