A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes

Tuberculosis is a worldwide occurring disease that affects approximately 20–40% of the world’s population and in particular in developing countries. However, in times of migration, industrialised countries are again being more and more affected. Cutaneous tuberculosis is rare and lupus vulgaris repr...

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Autores principales: Pföhler, Claudia, Klotz, Michael, Wehler, Thomas, Vogt, Thomas, Müller, Cornelia S. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5336427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27888486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13555-016-0158-x
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author Pföhler, Claudia
Klotz, Michael
Wehler, Thomas
Vogt, Thomas
Müller, Cornelia S. L.
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Wehler, Thomas
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Müller, Cornelia S. L.
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description Tuberculosis is a worldwide occurring disease that affects approximately 20–40% of the world’s population and in particular in developing countries. However, in times of migration, industrialised countries are again being more and more affected. Cutaneous tuberculosis is rare and lupus vulgaris represents its most common form. Preferentially, young adults in developing or low-income countries are affected from cutaneous tuberculosis, which usually occurs in previously sensitized persons with a high degree of tuberculin sensitivity and a good immunoresponse. In Europe, more elderly people are involved. We present a case of lupus vulgaris that was diagnosed with a delay of about 20 years after onset of first skin changes.
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spelling pubmed-53364272017-03-16 A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes Pföhler, Claudia Klotz, Michael Wehler, Thomas Vogt, Thomas Müller, Cornelia S. L. Dermatol Ther (Heidelb) Case Report Tuberculosis is a worldwide occurring disease that affects approximately 20–40% of the world’s population and in particular in developing countries. However, in times of migration, industrialised countries are again being more and more affected. Cutaneous tuberculosis is rare and lupus vulgaris represents its most common form. Preferentially, young adults in developing or low-income countries are affected from cutaneous tuberculosis, which usually occurs in previously sensitized persons with a high degree of tuberculin sensitivity and a good immunoresponse. In Europe, more elderly people are involved. We present a case of lupus vulgaris that was diagnosed with a delay of about 20 years after onset of first skin changes. Springer Healthcare 2016-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5336427/ /pubmed/27888486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13555-016-0158-x Text en © The Author(s) 2016 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Pföhler, Claudia
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Wehler, Thomas
Vogt, Thomas
Müller, Cornelia S. L.
A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes
title A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes
title_full A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes
title_fullStr A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes
title_full_unstemmed A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes
title_short A Slowly Growing Orange Patch on the Cheek: Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris 20 Years After Onset of First Skin Changes
title_sort slowly growing orange patch on the cheek: diagnosis of lupus vulgaris 20 years after onset of first skin changes
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5336427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27888486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13555-016-0158-x
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