Citation

Zadbuke S, Khan N, Set R, Shastri J. Indian J. Med. Microbiol. 2012; 30(1): 98-100.

Affiliation

Department of Microbiology, TNMC, Mumbai - 400 008, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, Publisher Medknow Publications)

DOI

10.4103/0255-0857.93058

PMID

22361771

Abstract

Tuberculosis is considered as a 're emerging disease', because of its resurgence and increased incidence in the 21 st century particularly in immuno-compromised patients. About one fifth of diagnosed new cases of tuberculosis have an extrapulmonary lesion, of which about one-tenth involve the musculoskeletal system. Tuberculosis involving the soft tissue from adjacent bone or joint is well recognized but cutaneous tuberculous infection is rare, accounting for 0.1% of all cases seen in a dermatology service. We report a case of primary cutaneous tuberculosis of forearm following a vehicular accident in a young immunocompetent female.

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