Cutaneous tuberculosis presenting as lupus vulgaris

Disseminated Mycobacterium Tuberculosis with Ulceronecrotic Cutaneous Disease Presenting as Cellulitis

DISSEMINATED MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS WITH ULCERONECROTIC CUTANEOUS DISEASE PRESENTING AS CELLULITIS Abstract Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of infectious tuberculosis caused by invasion of the skin by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculous cellulitis is a rare type of cutaneous tuberculosis with cellulitis-like symptoms. Only eight cases of tuberculous cellulitis have been r...

Congenital tuberculosis presenting as cutaneous disease in a premature infant.

We report a premature neonate who developed bizarre multiple skin lesions after being cured from hyaline membrane disease. These lesions were thought initially as multiple abscesses at the puncture sites, which did not respond to the conventional antibiotics. Biopsy of the skin lesion was of great importance in reaching the diagnosis of congenital tuberculosis as cutaneous disease.

Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Lupus Vulgaris Caused by Drug Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is still a major public health problem in the world, with many factors contributing to this burden, including poor living conditions, overcrowding, poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, and rapid spread of human immunodeficiency virus infection. Cutaneous tuberculosis is a less common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and in this paucibacillary form the diagnosis depends on hi...

Tuberculosis Endometritis Presenting as A Leiomyoma

Thyroid Tuberculosis Presenting as a Cystic Nodule

Although tuberculosis involves every organ and has a wide range of clinical manifestation, however involvement of the thyroid gland is rare. We report a case of a 25-yr-old female with supraclavicular lymphadenitis that developed nodular swelling of the thyroid and had symptoms and sonographic features mimicking a nodule with a cystic component. The diagnosis was made by using fine needle aspir...