TY - JOUR
KW - Aged
KW - Diagnosis, Differential
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Mycobacterium
KW - Mycobacterium avium
KW - Tuberculosis, Cutaneous
AU - Cole G W
AU - Gebhard J
AB - <p>A patient on systemic steroid therapy developed a cutaneous papule while histologically resembled lepromatous leprosy. Cultures of this lesion grew Mycobacterium avium. Since there was no evidence of disseminated infection the lesion was excised and the patient continues to do well.</p>
BT - The British journal of dermatology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/475990?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1979 Jul
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1979.tb15295.x
IS - 1
J2 - Br. J. Dermatol.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A patient on systemic steroid therapy developed a cutaneous papule while histologically resembled lepromatous leprosy. Cultures of this lesion grew Mycobacterium avium. Since there was no evidence of disseminated infection the lesion was excised and the patient continues to do well.</p>
PY - 1979
SP - 71
EP - 4
T2 - The British journal of dermatology
TI - Mycobacterium avium infection of the skin resembling lepromatous leprosy.
VL - 101
SN - 0007-0963
ER -