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Case Reports
. 2024 May 6:57:e009122024.
doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0071-2024. eCollection 2024.

Scrofuloderma: The Neglected Tuberculosis

[Article in Portuguese]
Alan Bittencourt da Silva  1 , Ana Cristina do Amaral Jacques Nacao  2
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Case Reports

Scrofuloderma: The Neglected Tuberculosis

[Article in Portuguese]
Alan Bittencourt da Silva et al. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. .
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FIGURE 1:
FIGURE 1:. Painless ulcer with a nonexudative base in the left supraclavicular fossa that developed from an enlarged lymph node.
FIGURE 2:
FIGURE 2:. Axial plane thoracic computed tomography images show bilateral pleural effusion, ground-glass opacity in the left lung (white arrow on image A), and a tree-in-bud pattern in the right lung (blue arrows on images A and B).
FIGURE 3:
FIGURE 3:. The left supraclavicular ulcer shows complete healing 14 weeks after starting antituberculosis therapy.
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