Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic disease, the diagnosis of which depends on the presence of non-necrotising granulomas in a biopsy specimen. However, variants such as necrotising sarcoid granuloma make it difficult to differentiate the disease from other infectious processes, especially tuberculosis. Here the authors describe the case of a 58-year-old Iranian woman who developed granulomas with ...

At the present time, tuberculosis affecting the skin or the small bones of the hands and feet is uncommon in Great Britain. Out of 2500 cases of tuberculosis in children documented by Miller, Seal, and Taylor (1963), 34 had a primary skin infection and 28 had a haematogenous skin infection. Of these 28, only 6 were of the verrucous type. In their entire series they saw only 2 cases of tuberculo...

Pulmonary tuberculosis is a major public health problem in Indonesia, with the number of patients being second largest world after India. Tuberculosis (TB) caused by pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 80% which are pulmonary TB and rest extra pulmonary. Patients history become one risk factors for lung cancer due to chronic tissue damage. can also present as tuberculoma mimic tumor. We report...

Indrani Dhawan 1 , Oneal Gupta 1 , Ankit Kaushik* 1 , Sunil Ranga 1 , Dimple Kasana 2 , Prem R Gupta 1 1 Department of Pathology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India 2 Department of Microbiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from a curable infectious d...