Tuberculosis of the skin may present clinically. as plaques, ulcers, verrucous, lesions, nodules, tumors, vegetatives reactions, and cicartricial infiltration.
The reaction of the host to the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis also varies with the extent and the degree of invasion, the virulence of the bacilli, and nonspecific factors such as age and general state of health.
The incidence of cutaneous tuberculosis has tendency to decline in the world because of the availability of effective antiTB drugs, elimination of infected milk herbs, and an elevation of living standards, but in Korea, cutaneous tuberculosis remained to be a significant medical problem.
We experienced 21 year-old male who had a case of 3 clinical types including Lupus vulgaris, Scrofuloderma, Papulonecrotic tuberculid.
Diagnosis of 3 clinical types were established by clinical history and signs, histo pathology, tuberculin test and effective of treatment with INH, streptomycin and literature were reviewed.
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