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Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic challenge()
The authors report a case of cutaneous tuberculosis in a 63-year-old female patient, who had an infiltrated, erythematous-ferruginous plaque of indurated aspect on her right leg and a nonreactive PPD skin test. Diagnosis was made by tissue culture and PCR of skin biopsy material. The treatment was p...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25672314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153318 |
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| author | Nassif, Priscila Wolf Rosa, Ana Paula Zanatta Gurgel, Ana Cristina Medeiros Campanerut, Paula Aline Zanetti Fillus Neto, José Cardoso, Rosilene Fressatti |
| author_facet | Nassif, Priscila Wolf Rosa, Ana Paula Zanatta Gurgel, Ana Cristina Medeiros Campanerut, Paula Aline Zanetti Fillus Neto, José Cardoso, Rosilene Fressatti |
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| description | The authors report a case of cutaneous tuberculosis in a 63-year-old female patient, who had an infiltrated, erythematous-ferruginous plaque of indurated aspect on her right leg and a nonreactive PPD skin test. Diagnosis was made by tissue culture and PCR of skin biopsy material. The treatment was performed with pyrazinamide, rifampicin, isoniazid and ethambutol, with good response. |
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| spelling | pubmed-43237132015-02-20 Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic challenge() Nassif, Priscila Wolf Rosa, Ana Paula Zanatta Gurgel, Ana Cristina Medeiros Campanerut, Paula Aline Zanetti Fillus Neto, José Cardoso, Rosilene Fressatti An Bras Dermatol Imaging in Tropical Dermatology The authors report a case of cutaneous tuberculosis in a 63-year-old female patient, who had an infiltrated, erythematous-ferruginous plaque of indurated aspect on her right leg and a nonreactive PPD skin test. Diagnosis was made by tissue culture and PCR of skin biopsy material. The treatment was performed with pyrazinamide, rifampicin, isoniazid and ethambutol, with good response. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4323713/ /pubmed/25672314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153318 Text en ©2015 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. |
| spellingShingle | Imaging in Tropical Dermatology Nassif, Priscila Wolf Rosa, Ana Paula Zanatta Gurgel, Ana Cristina Medeiros Campanerut, Paula Aline Zanetti Fillus Neto, José Cardoso, Rosilene Fressatti Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic challenge() |
| title | Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic
challenge() |
| title_full | Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic
challenge() |
| title_fullStr | Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic
challenge() |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic
challenge() |
| title_short | Cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive PPD skin test: a diagnostic
challenge() |
| title_sort | cutaneous tuberculosis with nonreactive ppd skin test: a diagnostic
challenge() |
| topic | Imaging in Tropical Dermatology |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4323713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25672314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153318 |
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