الملخص
Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes tuberculosis (TB). Lupus vulgaris is one of the most common forms of cutaneous TB, which affects 1%–2% of TB patients. Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease with an unknown origin, and skin involvement is the second most common symptom. Both TB and sarcoidosis are granulomatous diseases. Depending on investigations, it is often hard to distinguish sarcoidosis from TB, especially when serum angiotensin-converting enzyme levels are high in certain cases of TB with negative acid-fast staining in the biopsy specimen. This is a report of two patients where there was trouble distinguishing between sarcoidosis and TB based on laboratory reports but was eventually diagnosed with cutaneous TB based on the Mantoux, QuantiFERON-TB Gold test, and histopathological pattern. Anti-TB therapy was administered to those patients, and the skin lesions resolved completely.
الكلمات المفتاحية
الموضوع
بيانات النشر
- المعرّف الرقمي
- 10.4103/jpdtsm.jpdtsm_12_22
- المجلة
- Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine, 1(1), 63-66
- الناشر
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
- وصول مفتوح
- وصول مفتوح ذهبي
- الترخيص
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
اقتبس هذه المقالة
APA 7
Geetha, K., Puja, Kumari, N., & Gupta, S. (2022). The Diagnostic Conundrum of Lupus Vulgaris versus Cutaneous Sarcoidosis. Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine, 1(1), 63-66. https://doi.org/10.4103/jpdtsm.jpdtsm_12_22
MLA 9
Geetha, K., et al. "The Diagnostic Conundrum of Lupus Vulgaris versus Cutaneous Sarcoidosis." Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine, vol. 1, no. 1, 2022, pp. 63-66. https://doi.org/10.4103/jpdtsm.jpdtsm_12_22.
شيكاغو (المؤلف–التاريخ)
Geetha, K., Puja, Niraj Kumari, and Shruti Gupta. 2022. "The Diagnostic Conundrum of Lupus Vulgaris versus Cutaneous Sarcoidosis." Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine 1 (1): 63-66. https://doi.org/10.4103/jpdtsm.jpdtsm_12_22.
هارفارد
Geetha, K., Puja, Kumari, N. and Gupta, S. (2022) 'The Diagnostic Conundrum of Lupus Vulgaris versus Cutaneous Sarcoidosis', Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine, 1(1), pp. 63-66. doi:10.4103/jpdtsm.jpdtsm_12_22.
فانكوفر
Geetha K, Puja, Kumari N, Gupta S. The Diagnostic Conundrum of Lupus Vulgaris versus Cutaneous Sarcoidosis. Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine. 2022;1(1):63-66. doi:10.4103/jpdtsm.jpdtsm_12_22
IEEE
K. Geetha, Puja, N. Kumari, and S. Gupta, "The Diagnostic Conundrum of Lupus Vulgaris versus Cutaneous Sarcoidosis," Journal of Preventive, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies in Medicine, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 63-66, 2022, doi: 10.4103/jpdtsm.jpdtsm_12_22.