CASE REPORT
LUPUS VULGARIS WITH UNUSUAL INVOLVEMENT
 
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Düzce University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Düzce, Turkey
 
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Atatürk University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Erzurum, Turkey
 
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Düzce University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Düzce, Turkey
 
 
Online publication date: 2007-07-15
 
 
Publication date: 2007-07-15
 
 
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Mustafa Atasoy   

Atatürk Üniversitesi Postanesi, PB: 2, 25171 Erzurum, Türkiye Phone: 904422360738, Fax: 904422361301
 
 
Eur J Gen Med 2007;4(3):135-137
 
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Lupus vulgaris is the most encountered form of cutaneous tuberculosis, and the most common site of involvement is the head and neck. In our lupus vulgaris cases, the lesions were located in throcal area in one case and gluteal area in the other. Ziehl-Neelsen and periodic acid-Schiff stains did not demonstrate any acid-fast bacilli. Culture did not grow mycobacterium tuberculosis except in case 1. PPD was strongly positive in all of the cases. Lesions of lupus vulgaris improved after anti-tuberculotic threrapy.
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