Tuberculous Cutaneous Ulcers Associated with Miliary Tuberculosis in an Elderly Woman.
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.
Toutous-Trellu
Laurence
L
Department of Dermatology and Venerology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Charlet
Isabelle
I
Hirschel
Bernard
B
Prins
C
C
Masouyé
I
I
Vischer
Ulrich M
UM
Janssens
Jean-Paul
JP