Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case report

Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TVC) also known as prosector’s wart occurs due to exogenous inoculation of tubercle bacilli into the skin. A 52 year old female came with complaints of raised skin lesion over the left leg and foot since 20 years. Pain and discharge from the lesion was present since 15...

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Main Author: Dakshinamoorthy Manjumeena
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Language:English
Published: Our Dermatology Online 2018-07-01
Series:Nasza Dermatologia Online
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Online Access:http://www.odermatol.com/issue-in-html/2018-3-10-tuberculosis/
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description Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TVC) also known as prosector’s wart occurs due to exogenous inoculation of tubercle bacilli into the skin. A 52 year old female came with complaints of raised skin lesion over the left leg and foot since 20 years. Pain and discharge from the lesion was present since 15 days. History of swelling of the left leg since 2 weeks. Cutaneous examination revealed multiple well defined erythematous to flesh coloured soft nodules over left lower leg with surrounding hyperpigmented scaly plaque. A well defined hyperpigmented verrucous plaque with central depigmentation over left foot. Lupus vulgaris and chromoblastomycosis were the provisional diagnosis. Mantoux test was positive. Biopsy was suggestive of TBVC. Patient was treated with anti-tuberculous therapy. TBVC usually presents as a single verrucous lesion over exposed areas of the body. Our patient here presented with multiple nodules and hyperpigmented plaque over the left lower limb which was mimicking chromoblastomycosis.
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spelling doaj.art-4340b5cd8a86472f8adfe5eb4e2096222022-12-22T02:45:07ZengOur Dermatology OnlineNasza Dermatologia Online2081-93902018-07-0193275278Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case reportDakshinamoorthy ManjumeenaTuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TVC) also known as prosector’s wart occurs due to exogenous inoculation of tubercle bacilli into the skin. A 52 year old female came with complaints of raised skin lesion over the left leg and foot since 20 years. Pain and discharge from the lesion was present since 15 days. History of swelling of the left leg since 2 weeks. Cutaneous examination revealed multiple well defined erythematous to flesh coloured soft nodules over left lower leg with surrounding hyperpigmented scaly plaque. A well defined hyperpigmented verrucous plaque with central depigmentation over left foot. Lupus vulgaris and chromoblastomycosis were the provisional diagnosis. Mantoux test was positive. Biopsy was suggestive of TBVC. Patient was treated with anti-tuberculous therapy. TBVC usually presents as a single verrucous lesion over exposed areas of the body. Our patient here presented with multiple nodules and hyperpigmented plaque over the left lower limb which was mimicking chromoblastomycosis.http://www.odermatol.com/issue-in-html/2018-3-10-tuberculosis/Tuberculosis verrucosa cutisTubercle bacilliChromoblastomycosis
spellingShingle Dakshinamoorthy Manjumeena
Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case report
Nasza Dermatologia Online
Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis
Tubercle bacilli
Chromoblastomycosis
title Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case report
title_full Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case report
title_fullStr Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case report
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case report
title_short Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis – a case report
title_sort tuberculosis verrucosa cutis masqerading as chromoblastomycosis a case report
topic Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis
Tubercle bacilli
Chromoblastomycosis
url http://www.odermatol.com/issue-in-html/2018-3-10-tuberculosis/
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