ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS

Tuberculosis continues to be an important public health problem and cutaneous tuberculosis constitutes a minor proportion of extra pulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis. Elephantiasis of the external genitalia, as a sequel to cutaneous tuberculosis, in a 40-year-old diabetic lady is being reporte...

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Autores principales: Padmavathy, L, Rao, L Lakshmana, Chockalingam, K, Ethirajan, N, Dhanlakshmi, M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20049271
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.48988
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author Padmavathy, L
Rao, L Lakshmana
Chockalingam, K
Ethirajan, N
Dhanlakshmi, M
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Rao, L Lakshmana
Chockalingam, K
Ethirajan, N
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description Tuberculosis continues to be an important public health problem and cutaneous tuberculosis constitutes a minor proportion of extra pulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis. Elephantiasis of the external genitalia, as a sequel to cutaneous tuberculosis, in a 40-year-old diabetic lady is being reported for its rarity. The patient also had lesions of healed scrofuloderma of 27 years’ duration, in both axillae, with residual pedunculated nodules.
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spelling pubmed-28008722010-01-04 ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS Padmavathy, L Rao, L Lakshmana Chockalingam, K Ethirajan, N Dhanlakshmi, M Indian J Dermatol Case Report Tuberculosis continues to be an important public health problem and cutaneous tuberculosis constitutes a minor proportion of extra pulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis. Elephantiasis of the external genitalia, as a sequel to cutaneous tuberculosis, in a 40-year-old diabetic lady is being reported for its rarity. The patient also had lesions of healed scrofuloderma of 27 years’ duration, in both axillae, with residual pedunculated nodules. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2800872/ /pubmed/20049271 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.48988 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Padmavathy, L
Rao, L Lakshmana
Chockalingam, K
Ethirajan, N
Dhanlakshmi, M
ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS
title ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS
title_full ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS
title_fullStr ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS
title_full_unstemmed ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS
title_short ELEPHANTIASIS OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALIA: A SEQUEL TO CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS
title_sort elephantiasis of the external genitalia: a sequel to cutaneous tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20049271
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.48988
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