Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report

Lupus vulgaris is the commonest form of cutaneous tuberculosis. It is a chronic and slowly progressive disease. It can be transmitted either through hematogenous or lymphatic spread but most commonly through contiguous extension. There are many reports on different form of lupus vulgaris but there a...

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Autores principales: Parajuli, Niraj, Jha, Harendra Kumar, Jonkman, Marcel Franciscus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827514/
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4453
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author Parajuli, Niraj
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description Lupus vulgaris is the commonest form of cutaneous tuberculosis. It is a chronic and slowly progressive disease. It can be transmitted either through hematogenous or lymphatic spread but most commonly through contiguous extension. There are many reports on different form of lupus vulgaris but there are only a few reports on large sized lupus vulgaris. Here, we report a case of 75-year-old man with a giant lupus vulgaris rapidly progressing in just two year's duration.
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spelling pubmed-88275142022-03-01 Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report Parajuli, Niraj Jha, Harendra Kumar Jonkman, Marcel Franciscus JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Case Report Lupus vulgaris is the commonest form of cutaneous tuberculosis. It is a chronic and slowly progressive disease. It can be transmitted either through hematogenous or lymphatic spread but most commonly through contiguous extension. There are many reports on different form of lupus vulgaris but there are only a few reports on large sized lupus vulgaris. Here, we report a case of 75-year-old man with a giant lupus vulgaris rapidly progressing in just two year's duration. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2019-08 2019-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8827514/ http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4453 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Parajuli, Niraj
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Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report
title Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report
title_full Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report
title_fullStr Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report
title_short Giant Arcuate Lupus Vulgaris with Rapid Progression: A Case Report
title_sort giant arcuate lupus vulgaris with rapid progression: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827514/
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