Vanishing tan and unfaithfulness

Adrenal tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of active tuberculosis and is a difficult diagnosis to make if its presentation is sole manifestation of tuberculosis. We present an interesting case of a young male who presented only with symptoms of hyper pigmentation and was diagnosed as adrenal tuber...

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Autores principales: Mokta, Jatinder K., Jaswal, K. S., Mokta, Kiran K., Panda, Prashant, Dhiman, D. S., Sharma, S., Bhatia, Vikas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4046602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24910841
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.123570
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author Mokta, Jatinder K.
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description Adrenal tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of active tuberculosis and is a difficult diagnosis to make if its presentation is sole manifestation of tuberculosis. We present an interesting case of a young male who presented only with symptoms of hyper pigmentation and was diagnosed as adrenal tuberculosis. Also, this report highlights the importance of drug interaction between antitubercular drug and steroid which lead to the deterioration in the early part of treatment and, later on was corrected by increasing the dose of steroids.
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spelling pubmed-40466022014-06-06 Vanishing tan and unfaithfulness Mokta, Jatinder K. Jaswal, K. S. Mokta, Kiran K. Panda, Prashant Dhiman, D. S. Sharma, S. Bhatia, Vikas Indian J Endocrinol Metab Brief Communication Adrenal tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of active tuberculosis and is a difficult diagnosis to make if its presentation is sole manifestation of tuberculosis. We present an interesting case of a young male who presented only with symptoms of hyper pigmentation and was diagnosed as adrenal tuberculosis. Also, this report highlights the importance of drug interaction between antitubercular drug and steroid which lead to the deterioration in the early part of treatment and, later on was corrected by increasing the dose of steroids. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4046602/ /pubmed/24910841 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.123570 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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