@article{32234, keywords = {Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, Ganglionar tuberculosis, Hansen disease, leprosy, Lymph node chains}, author = {Tablada MER and Marrero HR and López NP}, title = {[Leprosy and ganglionar tuberculosis coinfection in an adult]}, abstract = {

The case report of a 34 year-old patient is described who came to the Dermatology Service due to disseminated pruritic erythematous stains. After 3 months with specific treatment he began to present evening low fevers and painful cervical adenopathies, reason why a baciloscopy was indicated in both elbows and ear pavilions, but the Mycobacterium leprae was not found; besides aspiration biopsy with fine needle of a cervical ganglion was also carried out, which result revealed a ganglionar tuberculosis. Finally a leprosy and tuberculosis ganglionar coinfection was diagnosed, two diseases emerging due to the Mycobacterium, which coexistence is strange.

}, year = {2018}, journal = {MEDISAN}, volume = {22}, pages = {559-566}, url = {http://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/medisan/mds-2018/mds187g.pdf}, language = {spa, eng}, }