Cutaneous tuberculosis: Diagnosis, histopathology and treatment - Part II

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 545-555

  dos Santos, Josemir Belo ^a   Ferraz, Cláudia Elise ^a   da Silva, Perla Gomes ^a   Figueiredo, Ana Roberta ^a   de Oliveira, Márcia Helena ^a   de Medeiros, Vanessa Lucília Sileira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cutaneous; Erythema induratum; Latent tuberculosis; Lymph node; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN TOXICITY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEVER; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; HYPERURICEMIA; INSOMNIA; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LICHEN (DISEASE); LICHEN SCROFULOSORUM; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LUPUS VULGARIS; METASTATIC ABSCESS; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; NAUSEA; NEURITIS; NYSTAGMUS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSIS; RASH; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; SPOLIGOTYPING; TANDEM REPEAT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUBERCULID; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS ORIFICIALIS; VACCINATION; VASCULITIS; VERTIGO; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECROSIS; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 84904746893     PISSN: 03650596     EISSN: 18064841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20142747     Document Type: Article

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