An Unusual Presentation of Lupus Vulgaris and the Practical Usefulness of Dermatoscopy

We report a case report of lupus vulgaris (LV) presented on the extremities of an 80-year-old man. He was misdiagnosed as having psoriasis and referred to our department for a second-opinion evaluation. The discrepancy between the clinical manifestation which was misleading and the dermatoscopic fin...

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Autores principales: Theodosiou, Grigorios, Papageorgiou, Marina, Mandekou-Lefaki, Ioanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6261242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30538869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1036162
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author Theodosiou, Grigorios
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description We report a case report of lupus vulgaris (LV) presented on the extremities of an 80-year-old man. He was misdiagnosed as having psoriasis and referred to our department for a second-opinion evaluation. The discrepancy between the clinical manifestation which was misleading and the dermatoscopic findings raised the suspicion of an underlying granulomatous disease and we proceeded to skin biopsy. The histopathologic examination set the diagnosis of LV.
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spelling pubmed-62612422018-12-11 An Unusual Presentation of Lupus Vulgaris and the Practical Usefulness of Dermatoscopy Theodosiou, Grigorios Papageorgiou, Marina Mandekou-Lefaki, Ioanna Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report We report a case report of lupus vulgaris (LV) presented on the extremities of an 80-year-old man. He was misdiagnosed as having psoriasis and referred to our department for a second-opinion evaluation. The discrepancy between the clinical manifestation which was misleading and the dermatoscopic findings raised the suspicion of an underlying granulomatous disease and we proceeded to skin biopsy. The histopathologic examination set the diagnosis of LV. Hindawi 2018-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6261242/ /pubmed/30538869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1036162 Text en Copyright © 2018 Grigorios Theodosiou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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