Unusual Sites of Cutaneous Tuberculosis: A Report of Two Cases

• Main Authors: Dimple Chopra (Author), Vishal Chopra (Author), Aastha Sharma (Author), Siddharth Chopra (Author), Shivali Aggarwal (Author), Deepak Goyal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cutaneous tuberculosis (CTB) is an uncommon small subset of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, comprising 1-1.5% of all extrapulmonary tuberculosis manifestations, which manifests only in 8.4-13.7% of all tuberculosis cases. Lupus vulgaris (LV) and tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TBVC) are forms of reinfect...