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Undermined Skin Lesion Emerged as Tubercular Meningitis: A Case Report

Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and it is uncommon even in places where tuberculosis is widespread. A 32-year-old female presented with fever and headache along with prior history of an ulcer in her leg which was treated as cellulitis at another centre. The neck...

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Autores principales: Yadav, Dhirendra, Khan, Javed Ahmad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37203944
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.8079
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description Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and it is uncommon even in places where tuberculosis is widespread. A 32-year-old female presented with fever and headache along with prior history of an ulcer in her leg which was treated as cellulitis at another centre. The neck rigidity, and the Kernig and Budzinski sign were also positive. There were also features of increased intracranial pressure. The non-contrast computed tomography showed bilateral hydrocephalus and hypodense areas. She was managed for increased intracranial pressure and anti-tubercular therapy for disseminated tuberculosis. Biopsy of non-healing wounds should be checked for lupus vulgaris.
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spelling pubmed-102315522023-06-01 Undermined Skin Lesion Emerged as Tubercular Meningitis: A Case Report Yadav, Dhirendra Khan, Javed Ahmad JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Case Report Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and it is uncommon even in places where tuberculosis is widespread. A 32-year-old female presented with fever and headache along with prior history of an ulcer in her leg which was treated as cellulitis at another centre. The neck rigidity, and the Kernig and Budzinski sign were also positive. There were also features of increased intracranial pressure. The non-contrast computed tomography showed bilateral hydrocephalus and hypodense areas. She was managed for increased intracranial pressure and anti-tubercular therapy for disseminated tuberculosis. Biopsy of non-healing wounds should be checked for lupus vulgaris. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2023-03 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10231552/ /pubmed/37203944 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.8079 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Undermined Skin Lesion Emerged as Tubercular Meningitis: A Case Report
title_sort undermined skin lesion emerged as tubercular meningitis: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231552/
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