Cutaneous tuberculosis: a rare presentation of malignancy.
An 88-year-old woman presented with fever, a neck ulcer, and multiple subcutaneous nodules on her upper extremities and thorax. Her condition was initially diagnosed as malignancy associated with metastatic disease to the skin. A subcutaneous nodule was aspirated. A gram stain of the aspirate revealed weakly gram-positive bacilli, and a stain for acid-fast bacilli was positive. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from a culture of a specimen of the skin lesion.
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Department of Infectious Diseases, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, New York 11355.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D014382:Tuberculosis, Cutaneous / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*