TY - JOUR KW - Aged KW - Diagnosis, Differential KW - Humans KW - Kveim Test KW - Lepromin KW - Leprosy, Tuberculoid KW - Male KW - Sarcoidosis KW - Skin Diseases KW - Skin Tests AU - Proença N G AB -

Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described. In countries where leprosy occurs as an endemic disease the differential diagnosis between sarcoidosis and tuberculoid leprosy may be difficult to establish. In order to entrance the correct diagnosis this study presents a table in which the results of lepromin and Kveim tests are analyzed are correlated to the other.

BT - Medicina cutanea ibero-latino-americana C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2671549?dopt=Abstract DA - 1989 IS - 3 J2 - Med Cutan Ibero Lat Am LA - por N2 -

Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described. In countries where leprosy occurs as an endemic disease the differential diagnosis between sarcoidosis and tuberculoid leprosy may be difficult to establish. In order to entrance the correct diagnosis this study presents a table in which the results of lepromin and Kveim tests are analyzed are correlated to the other.

PY - 1989 SP - 163 EP - 5 T2 - Medicina cutanea ibero-latino-americana TI - [Interpretation of the Mitsuda and Kveim tests in the differential diagnosis of tuberculoid hanseniasis and cutaneous sarcoidosis]. VL - 17 SN - 0210-5187 ER -