LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS

Lichen scrofulosorum is a tuberculid that is usually seen in children or young adults. Although a rare occurrence, this tuberculid is an important marker of occult tuberculosis, which may not be detected otherwise. We report here a case of lichen scrofulosorum in a ten year-old boy with typical grou...

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Autores principales: Dogra, Naina, Shah, Shazia, Dogra, Devraj
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881997
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.41656
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author Dogra, Naina
Shah, Shazia
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description Lichen scrofulosorum is a tuberculid that is usually seen in children or young adults. Although a rare occurrence, this tuberculid is an important marker of occult tuberculosis, which may not be detected otherwise. We report here a case of lichen scrofulosorum in a ten year-old boy with typical grouped lichenoid papules on the trunk associated with axillary tuberculous lymphadenitis.
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spelling pubmed-27637102009-10-29 LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS Dogra, Naina Shah, Shazia Dogra, Devraj Indian J Dermatol Case Report Lichen scrofulosorum is a tuberculid that is usually seen in children or young adults. Although a rare occurrence, this tuberculid is an important marker of occult tuberculosis, which may not be detected otherwise. We report here a case of lichen scrofulosorum in a ten year-old boy with typical grouped lichenoid papules on the trunk associated with axillary tuberculous lymphadenitis. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2763710/ /pubmed/19881997 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.41656 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS
title LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS
title_full LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS
title_fullStr LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS
title_full_unstemmed LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS
title_short LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM: AN IMPORTANT MARKER OF OCCULT TUBERCULOSIS
title_sort lichen scrofulosorum: an important marker of occult tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881997
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.41656
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