title: [Cutaneous tuberculosis: a 36-case series from Morocco].
abstract: Tuberculosis is still endemic in Morocco. Cutaneous tuberculosis is the fifth most common form after pleuropulmonary, glandular, digestive and urogenital tract tuberculosis. The purpose of this single-center prospective study is to describe all cases of cutaneous tuberculosis treated between May 2006 and June 2009. Diagnosis was suspected based on clinical, immunological and histological features. The main clinical presentations, i.e., scrofuloderma and gumma, were consistent with endemicity of tuberculosis in Morocco. Since definitive diagnosis by detection of the tubercle bacillus was rarely possible, therapy was usually undertaken presumptively based on clinical and laboratory findings and therapeutic response.
authors.affiliation: Service de dermatologie vénéreologie, CHU Hassan II, Fès, Maroc. sgallouj@gmail.com
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gallouj
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harmouch
authors.forename: F Z
authors.initials: FZ
authors.lastname: Karkos
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baybay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meziane
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sekal
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Amara
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mikou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amarti
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Benjelloun
authors.forename: F Z
authors.initials: FZ
authors.lastname: Mernissi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009018:Morocco; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014382:Tuberculosis, Cutaneous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D055815:Young Adult