Lewandowsky’s Rosaceiform Eruption: a Form of Cutaneous Tuberculosis Confirmed by PCR in Two Patients

Dermatology and Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-76

  Conlledo, Rodrigo ^a   Guglielmetti, Antonio ^a   Sobarzo, Macarena ^a   Woolvett, Francisca ^a   Bravo, Francisca ^a   González, Sergio ^b   Fich, Félix ^b   Vial, Verónica ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Lewandowsky; Polymerase chain reaction; Tuberculid; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; BCG VACCINE; BISABOLOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; ISONIAZID; ISOTRETINOIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CASE REPORT; CHEEK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DISEASE CLEARANCE; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMATOUS PAPULO NODULAR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LANGERHANS CELL; LEWANDOWSKY ROSACEIFORM ERUPTION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PAPULE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSACEA; SCRATCHING; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; TELANGIECTASIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84925762544     PISSN: 21938210     EISSN: 21909172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13555-014-0066-x     Document Type: Article

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