Multiple Skin Colored Nodules on both Legs in Patient with Positive QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Test
Annals of Dermatology
;
: 95-99, 2017.
Article
Dans Anglais
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| ID: wpr-132700
ABSTRACT
Nodular tuberculid (NT) was originally described by Jordaan et al. in 2000 in 4 patients from South Africa. It appeared as nodules on the legs; the pathologic changes were situated in the deep dermis and adjacent subcutaneous fat. A 34-year-old woman visited our hospital with subcutaneous skin-colored or slightly erythematous round to oval nodules. Skin biopsies revealed granulomatous inflammation at the dermo-subcutaneous junction with vasculitis. Chest X-ray, tuberculosus (TB)-polymerase chain reaction and TB culture of the skin specimen were normal. A QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test (QUIAGEN, Germany) was positive, which suggested a diagnosis of latent TB infection. The patient was treated with anti-TB medication and her condition has not recurred. Herein, we report a case of a patient with latent TB diagnosed by a positive QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test whose skin lesions had the clinical and histopathologic features of NT.
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WPRIM (Pacifique occidental)
Sujet Principal:
Peau
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République d'Afrique du Sud
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Thorax
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Tuberculose cutanée
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Vascularite
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Biopsie
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Pigmentation de la peau
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Derme
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Diagnostic
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Graisse sous-cutanée
Type d'étude:
Etude diagnostique
Limites du sujet:
Adulte
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Femelle
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Humains
Pays comme sujet:
Afrique
langue:
Anglais
Texte intégral:
Annals of Dermatology
Année:
2017
Type:
Article
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