title: Tuberculous Cutaneous Ulcers Associated with Miliary Tuberculosis in an Elderly Woman.
abstract: Skin localizations in disseminated tuberculosis may present a clinical resistant evolution. An 81-year-old woman, treated by long-term steroids and methotrexate for rheumatoid polyarthritis, developed a disseminated tuberculosis in chest, bones and skin. While pulmonary symptoms quickly improved under conventional tuberculostatic drugs, skin ulcers showed positive cultures for 5 months and healed after 12 months of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology and Venerology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Toutous-Trellu
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Charlet
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hirschel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prins
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masouyé
authors.forename: Ulrich M
authors.initials: UM
authors.lastname: Vischer
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Janssens