Open AccessSpina ventosa with lupus vulgaris and lymphadenopathy: Multifocal tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Sanjeev Sharma,
Shilpa Sood,
Mrinal Gupta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian dermatology online journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-5673
pISSN - 2229-5178
DOI - 10.4103/2229-5178.171042
Subject(s) - medicine , lupus vulgaris , tuberculosis , dactylitis , verruca vulgaris , dermatology , girl , pathology , disease , psychology , developmental psychology , enthesitis , psoriatic arthritis
Tuberculous dactylitis is a rare yet well-recognized disease of small bones of the hands and feet. It occurs in young children below five years of age. Tubercular dactylitis with lupus vulgaris and lymphadenopathy was suspected clinically and radiologically in an 8-year-old girl who had multiple soft tissue swelling of hands and feet with ulceration, encrustations, and an atrophic scar with lytic expansile lesions of the small bones of the hands and feet. Tubercular lymph node involvement was confirmed histopathologically.