[Cutaneous tuberculosis: a 36-case series from Morocco]

Med Trop (Mars). 2011 Feb;71(1):58-60.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Tuberculosis is still endemic in Morocco. Cutaneous tuberculosis is the fifth most common form after pleuropulmonary, glandular, digestive and urogenital tract tuberculosis. The purpose of this single-center prospective study is to describe all cases of cutaneous tuberculosis treated between May 2006 and June 2009. Diagnosis was suspected based on clinical, immunological and histological features. The main clinical presentations, i.e., scrofuloderma and gumma, were consistent with endemicity of tuberculosis in Morocco. Since definitive diagnosis by detection of the tubercle bacillus was rarely possible, therapy was usually undertaken presumptively based on clinical and laboratory findings and therapeutic response.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Morocco
  • Prospective Studies
  • Tuberculosis, Cutaneous* / diagnosis
  • Tuberculosis, Cutaneous* / drug therapy
  • Young Adult