Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()

Metastatic tuberculous abscesses or cutaneous tuberculous gummas occur mostly by reactivation of ancient cutaneous foci and is triggered mainly by pharmacological immunosuppression, diabetes mellitus, alcoholism or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The present case report refers to a 33-year-old m...

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Autores principales: da Silva, Guilherme Almeida Rosa, Motta, Rogério Neves, Carvalho, Ricardo de Souza, Lupi, Omar, de Azevedo, Marcelo Costa Velho Mendes, Ferry, Fernando Raphael de Almeida
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3699946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23539011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962013000100013
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Sumario:Metastatic tuberculous abscesses or cutaneous tuberculous gummas occur mostly by reactivation of ancient cutaneous foci and is triggered mainly by pharmacological immunosuppression, diabetes mellitus, alcoholism or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The present case report refers to a 33-year-old male patient with polymyositis and a previous diagnosis of treated pulmonary tuberculosis. He presented cutaneous abscesses and fever months after the tuberculosis regimen. The patient was diagnosed as metastatic tuberculous abscesses associated with immunosuppression as result of polymyositis treatment.

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