title: Unfamiliar Manifestations of Anti-tubercular Therapy.
abstract: Cutaneous drug reactions are frequent in hospitalized patients and vary from simple manifestations like rash and erythema to severe life threatening conditions like angio-oedema, erythroderma, Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis. However drug eruptions with antitubercular drugs are largely unknown except few case reports. We highlight here one similar case which presented with pleomorphic cutaneous manifestations after taking anti tubercular therapy and closely mimicked vasculitis. But when the offending drugs were stopped the lesions disappeared and the patient improved.
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Ramesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.affiliation: Dean, Professor, Department of Medicine/Preventive Cardiology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research and HAH Centenary Hospital, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Shridhar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dwivedi
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Meenakshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
keywords: Antitubercular therapy; cutaneous drug reactions; vasculitis