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| Provedor de dados: |
BJID
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Lupus vulgaris in a pediatric patient: a clinicohistopathological diagnosis
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| Autores: |
Afsar,F. Sule
Afsar,Ilhan
Diniz,Gulden
Asilsoy,Suna
Sorguc,Yelda
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| Data: |
2008-04-01
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Lupus vulgaris
Histopathology
Clinical appearance
Culture
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| Resumo: |
Lupus vulgaris is the most common form of cutaneous tuberculosis which usually occurs in patients previously sensitized to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We present a case of a 10-year-old boy who was diagnosed as lupus vulgaris clinically and histopathologically. He had well demarcated, irregularly bordered, pink, infiltrated plaques on his left cheek showing apple-jelly appearance on diascopy. The histopathological examination showed tuberculoid granulomas with Langhans type giant cells. The Mantoux reactivity was in normal limits, and no acid-fast bacilli was found in the lesion, either by direct stained smears or by culture. The lesions showed marked improvement on anti-tuberculosis treatment. We want to emphasize that histopathological examination has diagnostic value in lupus vulgaris in correlation with clinical appearance, when direct analysis or culture is negative.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000200011
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| Editor: |
Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1413-86702008000200011
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases v.12 n.2 2008
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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