DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i04.018

Pages: 482-484

Cutaneous tuberculosis accounts for 2% of all extrapulmonary tuberculosis and is one of the multiple clinical presentations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculous lupus is a paucibacillary form of cutaneous tuberculosis in which the existence of another site of infection is very fickle. We report an original case of tuberculous lupus of the hand with the indentification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT) on the skin biopsy in a 35-year-old woman. The Mantoux test was positive. The search for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum was negative. The skin lesions responded to antituberculous treatment.