cutaneous tuberculosis - the lung...
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CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS
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Cutaneous tuberculosis
• Laennec (1826) – prosector’s wart• Demme (1883) – demonstrated
Mycobacterium tuberculosis in lupus vulgaris.
• Neil Finsen won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1903 for introducing UV light into the treatment of skin TB.
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Epidemiology • Frequency –
Worldwide- 0.1-2.6% *
India- 0.11-2.5% *
• Age- mostly in first 3 decades of life #
• Sex- M:F = 1.35:1 #
*sehgal VN, Jain MK et al. Changing patterns of cutaneous tuberculosis.A prospective study. Int J Dermatol 1989;28:231-5. # Cutaneous Tuberculosis’ ,Monte S Meltzer et al, emedicine , nov 20,2006
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Causative micro-organisms
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis• Mycobacterium bovis• Mycobacterium africanum• Mycobacterium microti• Atypical mycobacteria
‘Cutaneous Tuberculosis’ ,Monte S Meltzer et al, emedicine , nov 20,2006
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Histology of normal skin
‘Lever’s TEXTBOOK OF HISTOLOGY’ 2nd edition 1991
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Cutaneous tuberculosis
• A typical tubercleconsists of an accumulation of
• epitheloid cells,• surrounded by a
wall of lymphocytes,
• few Langhansgiant cells,
• Caseation in centre.
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‘Tuberculosis’ by William N Rom & Stuart Garay, 1st edition 1996
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Primary cutaneous TB
Previously uninfected individual
cutaneous inoculation of tubercle bacilli
8-12 days= a hard nodule develops
Nodule ulcerates and regional lymphadenopathy
10-14 days= predominantly polymorphonuclear cells
3-4 wks= lymphocytes and epitheloid cells appear.
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Tuberculous chancre
• At the site of inoculation
• In a previously non-sensitized host
• Face , extremities• Papule/nodule
crusting & ulceration• Shallow ulcer with
granular base
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Tuberculous chancre
• May heal; usually proceeds to lupus vulgaris• Regional lymph nodes enlarge; may form
discharing sinuses; scrofuloderma• Skin biopsy-AFB can be seen in early lesions;
epitheloid cell granuloma with caseation• Tuberculin test positive
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Acute miliary TB of skin
• Hematogenousdissemination of MTB
• Infants , children• Initial focus- either
pulmonary or meningeal
• May follow measles or viral exanthems
• Constitutional symptoms- severe
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Acute miliary TB of skin• On all parts of body esp. trunk, thighs, buttocks,
genitalia • Skin lesions- pustules/vesicles/papules capped
by crust, on removal reveals umblication• Heal with white depressed scar with a brownish
halo• Biopsy- focal areas of necrosis surrounded by a
zone of macrophages, containing numerous tubercle bacilli
• Tuberculin sensitivity is absent
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Lupus vulgaris
• Most common • Previously sensitized host• Following exogenous inoculation, or
occasionally direct extension or lymphatic spread
• Over scar of scrofuloderma, after BCG vaccination
• Lesions show peripheral extension and central scarring
• “Apple jelly nodules”• Face, buttocks, lower limbs
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Lupus vulgaris- types• PLAQUE FORM-• Flat plaques• Surface may be
smooth or covered with scales
• Central scarring• PAPULAR &
NODULAR FORM
”TUBERCULOSIS” by SK Sharma, chapter 22, pg 262
‘textbook of clinical dermatology’ , 3rd edition -VN Sehgal
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Lupus vulgaris- types
• HYPERTROPHIC• Soft tumorous
growths with a nodular surface or as hyperkeratoticmasses
• Edema, vascular dilatation, elephantiasis
• ULCERATIVE• Necrosis, ulceration,
scarring• Deeper tissues and
cartilage destroyed resulting in contractures and deformity
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Lupus vulgaris- types
• VEGETATING-• Marked infiltration,
necrosis, ulceration with minimal scarring
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Lupus vulgaris
• Longstanding lesions squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma,sarcomas
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Tubercular verrucosa cutis
• Exogenous inoculation
• Previously sensitized individual
• Hands,fingers,lowerextremities
• Occpational hazard for physicians, pathologists, forensic experts, farmers, butchers
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Tubercular verrucosa cutis
• Asymptomatic, small solitary papule with an inflammatory areola hyperkeratotic and warty verrucous plaque with deep clefts and fissures.
• Pus and keratinous material can be expressed from the fissures.
• Lymphadenopathy in cases of secondary infection.
• Tuberculin test positive
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Tubercular verrucosa cutis
• Skin biopsy-hyperkeratosis,acanthosis, papillomatosis overlying an acute inflammatory infilterate in epidermis and microabscesses in upper dermis. Tuberculoidgranuloma with moderate amount of caseation in middermis with marked fibrosis.
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Scrofuloderma (colliquative TB)
• Skin lesions that develop from contiguous spread or extension of TB infectonfrom an underlying or adjacent structure
• Primary focus- LN, bones, joints,epididymis
• Sinus with 3-5mm orifice, thin seropurulentdischarge; attached to underlying structure
• Recur
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Scrofuloderma
• Healed sinuses- broardatrophic scars
• Scarring and fibrosis of LN may lead to lymphoedema and elephantiasis
• Tuberculin test positive• AFB can be
demonstrated in the discharge and can be cultured
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Tuberculosis Gumma• Hematogenous
spread• Soft, subcutaneous
swellings ulcers
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Tuberculosis cutis orificialis
• Inoculation of MTB from visceral infection into the skin around the draining orifices
• In perianal area or around the mouth in abdominal or pulmonary tuberculosis
• Nodule deep indolent non-healing ulcer
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Tuberculosis cutis orificialis
• Biopsy from the edge of the ulcer reveals epitheloid granulomadeep in the dermis
• AFB can be demonstrated and cultured
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Tuberculids
• Develop as hypersensitivity response to the presence of a tuberculosis focus elsewhere in the body
• Criteria:-Skin lesion must show a tuberculoidhistopathologyMTB absent in lesionsTuberculin test- strongly positiveT/t of the underlying tuberculosis focus must lead to resolution of skin lesions.
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Tuberculids• TYPES-
Lichen scrofulosorumPapulonecrotic tuberculidErythema induratum
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Lichen scrofulosorum• A crop of 2-5mm erythematous papules with
crusting• Trunk• Resolve in about 2wks-several months with
hyperpigmentation• Tuberculin test-strongly positive• Biopsy-small epitheloid granulomas in upper
dermis, around sweat glands
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Papulonecrotic tuberculid
• Multiple, papulonodularlesions, 2-5cm pustules with crust deep ulcer
• Trunk, extremities• Eruption preceeded by fever
& constitutional symptoms• Tuberculin test strongly
positive• Biopsy-wedge shaped
necrosis of the epidermis, upper dermis with underlying epitheloidgranuloma
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Erythema induratum of Bazin• Mildly tender,dull red
nodules, 5-7.5cmdeep persistent ulcers
• Posterior aspect of calves
• Granulomatouspanniculitis with vaculitis of dermal vessels
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Erythema nodosum
• TB is an imp cause in Indian patients
• Erythematous, tender,2.5-5cm nodules
• Shins,thighs,buttocks, foream
• Regress spontaneously; macular hyperpigmentation
• Septal panniculitis with epitheloid cell granuloma & vasculitis
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‘Tuberculosis’ by William N Rom & Stuart Garay, 1st edition 1996
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BCG vaccination-skin complications
• LOCALKeloidAbnormally large ulcerSubcutaneous abscessEpithelial cystGranulomatous reactionLupus vulgarisWarty tuberculosis
• GENERALISEDErythema nodosumTuberculidsScrofulodermaNon-specific haemorrhagic eruptions
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BCG vaccination complications
• M.bovis infection should be considered in patients with cutaneous eruptions who have received BCG vaccination, especially who are immunocompromised
Richard J,Antaya MD et al,Cutaneous complications of BCG vaccination in infants with immune disorders:two cases and review of literature. Pediatr Dermatology 2001;18:205
Lupus vulgaris following BCG vaccination
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Atypical mycobacteria
• Common causes:-M. fortuitum-chelonae complexM. hemophilumM. ulceransRare causes:-M. avium-intracellulareM. kansasiiM. scrofulaceum
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M. Marinum infection
• “swimming pool granuloma”
• Nodule on arm or hand,spreads along lymphatics
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M. ulcerans
• Swampy areas in Australia-Bairnsdale ulcer
• Uganda and certain parts of Africa-Buruli ulcer
• Following minor trauma
• Painless
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M. haemophilum
• Immnunosupressedindividuals
• Nodular lesions on extremities, face and chest.
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Cutaneous tuberculosis
• Jadassohn-Lewandowsky law –wherever micro-organisms or their products are being overcome or neutralized by the local immunologic reactions, tubercles or tuberculoidstructures have a tendency to appear.
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Lupus vulgaris- histology
• Skin biopsy- non-necrotizing epitheloid cell granulomas in upper dermis; thickened hyperkeratoticepidermis.
• AFB negative• Tuberculin test
positive
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Scrofuloderma
• Skin biopsy- from the edge of bluish thin overhanging edge of the sinus reveals a mixed cell granuloma of epitheloid cells, histiocyteswith neutrophils and eosinophils alongwithcentral caseation necrosis.
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All the best…