Multifocal Cutaneous Tuberculosis in Immunocompetent Individual
Published: December 1, 2015 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2015/.6852
Malay Mehta, Gopikrishnan Anjaneyan, Kirti Rathod, Rita V Vora
1. Resident, Department of Skin and VD, Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad, Gujarat, India.
2. Former Assistant Professor, Department of Skin and VD, Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad, Gujarat, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad, Gujarat, India.
4. Professor and Head, Department of Skin and VD, Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad, Gujarat, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Rita Vora,
Shree Krishna Hospital, Pramukhswami Medical College, Gokal Nagar, Karamsad- 388325, Anand, Gujarat, India.
E-mail: ritavv@charutarhealth.org
Most common form of cutaneous tuberculosis (TB) is lupus vulgaris, which usually occurs in previously sensitized individuals who have a high degree of tuberculin sensitivity. Various forms including plaque, ulcerative, hypertrophic, vegetative, papular, and nodular forms have been described. We are reporting a case of a young female, who presented with 6 well defined erythematous scaly plaques involving both arms and a puckered scar on right forearm and right breast. Clinically, it was looking like lupus vulgaris with cold abscess, few lesions mimicking scrofuloderma, but skin biopsy from both the types of lesions revealed lupus vulgaris. Patient improved with Anti Tuberculous Therapy and surgical drainage of underlying cold abscess.
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