Skin Ulcers: A Sign of Disseminated Tuberculosis

Tekbaş, Güven; Abakay, Abdurrahman; Tanrıkulu, Abdullah Çetin; Firat, Ugur; Ekıcı, Faysal; Dostbil, Zeki; Sula, Bilal

doi:10.4187/respcare.01107

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 16 publications

(25 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Disseminated extrapulmonary tuberculosis is an uncommon condition, accounting for about 2% of total tuberculosis cases and occurs chiefly in an endemic area and among patients with immunodepression (5,6). Lymphadenitis is the most common form of extrapulmonary disseminated sites and osseous involvement of the finger or leg is rare.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Disseminated tuberculosis presenting with finger swelling and skin ulcer: a case report

2014

International Wound Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Disseminated tuberculosis presenting with finger swelling and skin ulcer: a case report

2014

International Wound Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Five cases TB were treated empirically without initial microbiological evidence (3,5,9,14,15). Our review (4,(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21) found that the majority of cases (35%) diagnosed disseminated tuberculosis from a biopsy (7/20). Indonesia's National Tuberculosis Control Program, which was adopted from the WHO tuberculosis treatment guidelines, recommends that subject with a negative AFB but with clinical symptoms and a chest X-ray that is suggestive of TB, should be treated for tuberculosis smear-negative with further mycobacteria culture confirmation.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Massive Disseminated Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: Early Diagnostic and Empiric Treatment Approach from an Endemic Country: Indonesia (A Case Report and Literature Review)

Widysanto¹,

Soetjipto²,

Lugito³

2019

Respir Case Rep

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Tuberculosis is still rampant, despite the centuries of efforts to conquer it. Indonesia is host to the third highest TB burden in the world, with an uneven distribution of health care access, and especially to highly sensitive and specific molecular investigations. Rapid and accurate TB diagnosis is crucial for the control of the infection. An AFB smear test is easily accessed and is cost-effective, although there are a number of shortcomings with the approach. We report here on a case of negative acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear disseminated tuberculosis (TB) in a previously healthy 23year-old Indonesian female who presented to a secondary care facility with pulmonary, pericardial, peritoneal, utero-ovarian, genitourinary and splenic involvement. The clinician chose to start antituberculosis therapy without a positive microbiology and biopsy for bacterial load containment purposes, considering also the patient's clinical and endemic epidemiology. The diagnosis was confirmed with a positive mycobacterial culture after the initiation of anti-tuberculosis therapy. In the present study, we also review the diagnosis of 20 other cases of disseminated tuberculosis reported in other countries.

show abstract

Large nonhealing cutaneous tubercular neck ulcer as a presenting feature of undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis: An atypical presentation

Sinha¹,

Kamboj²,

Vashisht³

et al. 2022

Int J Mycobacteriol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Skin Ulcers: A Sign of Disseminated Tuberculosis

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Disseminated tuberculosis presenting with finger swelling and skin ulcer: a case report

Disseminated tuberculosis presenting with finger swelling and skin ulcer: a case report

Massive Disseminated Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient: Early Diagnostic and Empiric Treatment Approach from an Endemic Country: Indonesia (A Case Report and Literature Review)

Large nonhealing cutaneous tubercular neck ulcer as a presenting feature of undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis: An atypical presentation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About