Open AccessTuberculosis cutánea. Reporte de un caso
Author(s) -
Elsa Bisero,
Graciela Luque,
Karina Melillo,
M Favier,
Alejandra Zapata,
María Soledad Cuello
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
archivos argentinos de pediatría
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.