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Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge
Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, comprising 1-2% of cases. Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis or related strains, it presents a wide range of clinical manifestations, mimicking other chronic dermatoses and leading to delayed diagnosis. A case of scrofuloderma i...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30726475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20188560 |
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| author | de Mello, Renan Bernardes do Vale, Everton Carlos Siviero Baeta, Isabela Guimarães Ribeiro |
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| description | Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, comprising 1-2% of cases. Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis or related strains, it presents a wide range of clinical manifestations, mimicking other chronic dermatoses and leading to delayed diagnosis. A case of scrofuloderma is reported, whose diagnosis and treatment were only made six years after onset of the disease. |
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| spelling | pubmed-63609762019-02-11 Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge de Mello, Renan Bernardes do Vale, Everton Carlos Siviero Baeta, Isabela Guimarães Ribeiro An Bras Dermatol Tropical/Infectoparasitary Dermatology Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, comprising 1-2% of cases. Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis or related strains, it presents a wide range of clinical manifestations, mimicking other chronic dermatoses and leading to delayed diagnosis. A case of scrofuloderma is reported, whose diagnosis and treatment were only made six years after onset of the disease. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6360976/ /pubmed/30726475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20188560 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited and the work is not changed in any way. |
| spellingShingle | Tropical/Infectoparasitary Dermatology de Mello, Renan Bernardes do Vale, Everton Carlos Siviero Baeta, Isabela Guimarães Ribeiro Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge |
| title | Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge |
| title_full | Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge |
| title_fullStr | Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge |
| title_short | Scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge |
| title_sort | scrofuloderma: a diagnostic challenge |
| topic | Tropical/Infectoparasitary Dermatology |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30726475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20188560 |
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