Ghosh Sangita, Aggarwal Kamal, Jain Vijay Kumar, Chaudhuri Soumik, Ghosh Epsita
Department of Skin and Venereal Disease, Post Graduate Institute Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Department of General Medicine, Post Graduate Institute Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Indian J Dermatol. 2014 Jan;59(1):80-1. doi: 10.4103/0019-5154.123511.
Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TVC) is a common cutaneous form of paucibacillary tuberculosis in an individual with moderate to high degree of immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Clinical appearance of TVC is mostly very typical with well-defined warty plaques presenting mostly on hands, knees, ankle, and buttocks; however several atypical morphology of the lesions have also been described. We hereby report a case of TVC, masquerading as asymptomatic diffuse keratoderma of left foot for nine months, in an otherwise healthy individual, obstructing easy diagnosis of cutaneous tuberculosis. Diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology.
疣状皮肤结核(TVC)是一种常见的皮肤型少菌型结核病,见于对结核分枝杆菌感染具有中度至高度免疫力的个体。TVC的临床表现大多非常典型,界限清楚的疣状斑块主要出现在手部、膝部、踝部和臀部;然而,也有一些病变的非典型形态被描述过。我们在此报告一例TVC,在一名原本健康的个体中,伪装成左脚无症状弥漫性角化病长达9个月,阻碍了皮肤结核的诊断。组织病理学确诊了该病例。