Tuberculous Cutaneous Ulcers Associated with Miliary Tuberculosis in an Elderly Woman

Skin localizations in disseminated tuberculosis may present a clinical resistant evolution. An 81-year-old woman, treated by long-term steroids and methotrexate for rheumatoid polyarthritis, developed a disseminated tuberculosis in chest, bones and skin. While pulmonary symptoms quickly improved und...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Toutous-Trellu, Laurence, Charlet, Isabelle, Hirschel, Bernard, Prins, C., Masouyé, I., Vischer, Ulrich M., Janssens, Jean-Paul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2009
Materias:
Case Reports in Dematology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2895205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20652109
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000235690
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Sumario:Skin localizations in disseminated tuberculosis may present a clinical resistant evolution. An 81-year-old woman, treated by long-term steroids and methotrexate for rheumatoid polyarthritis, developed a disseminated tuberculosis in chest, bones and skin. While pulmonary symptoms quickly improved under conventional tuberculostatic drugs, skin ulcers showed positive cultures for 5 months and healed after 12 months of treatment.

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