|
KMID : 0032220170290010095
|
|
Annals of Dermatology
2017 Volume.29 No. 1 p.95 ~ p.99
|
|
|
Multiple Skin Colored Nodules on both Legs in Patient with Positive QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Test
|
|
Choi Mi-Soo
Hong Seung-Phil
Park Byung-Cheol
Kim Myung-Hwa
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Nodular tuberculid (NT) was originally described by Jordaan et al. in 2000 in 4 patients from South Africa. It appeared as nodules on the legs; the pathologic changes were situated in the deep dermis and adjacent subcutaneous fat. A 34-year-old woman visited our hospital with subcutaneous skin-colored or slightly erythematous round to oval nodules. Skin biopsies revealed granulomatous inflammation at the dermo-subcutaneous junction with vasculitis. Chest X-ray, tuberculosus (TB)-polymerase chain reaction and TB culture of the skin specimen were normal. A QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test (QUIAGEN, Germany) was positive, which suggested a diagnosis of latent TB infection. The patient was treated with anti-TB medication and her condition has not recurred. Herein, we report a case of a patient with latent TB diagnosed by a positive QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test whose skin lesions had the clinical and histopathologic features of NT.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Nodular tuberculid, QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test, Tuberculid
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
   
|