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Tuberculosis cutánea. Reporte de un caso

Author(s) -

Elsa Bisero,

Graciela Luque,

K.P. Melillo,

María Inés Favier,

Alejandra Zapata,

María Soledad Cuello

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

archivos argentinos de pediatria

Language(s) - Spanish

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 1668-3501

pISSN - 0325-0075

DOI - 10.5546/aap.2014.e93

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , dermatology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , cutaneous tuberculosis , presentation (obstetrics) , disease , biopsy , skin biopsy , incidence (geometry) , infectious disease (medical specialty) , surgery , pathology , physics , optics

Cutaneous tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is not very frequent and particularly difficult to diagnose. It incidence ranges between 1.5 and 4% of all extrapulmonary tuberculosis, according to bibliography. The clinic presentations depend on the arrival via of the bacillus to the skin, the patient's immune state and the environment. We show a cutaneous tuberculosis on a child with chronic dermatologic lesions, with torpid evolution, without response to treatments; the skin biopsy showed caseous granulomas. The aim is to show a patient with an infrequent clinic presentation of this disease, to emphasize the importance of an early recognition and treatment, avoiding the appearance of complications and sequels.

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