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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author da Silva, Guilherme Almeida Rosa
Motta, Rogério Neves
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Lupi, Omar
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author_facet da Silva, Guilherme Almeida Rosa
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description 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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spelling pubmed-36999462013-07-09 Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis() 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 An Bras Dermatol Case Report 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. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3699946/ /pubmed/23539011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962013000100013 Text en ©2013 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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da Silva, Guilherme Almeida Rosa
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Lupi, Omar
de Azevedo, Marcelo Costa Velho Mendes
Ferry, Fernando Raphael de Almeida
Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()
title Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()
title_full Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()
title_fullStr Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()
title_short Cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()
title_sort cutaneous tuberculous gummas in a patient with polymyositis()
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url 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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