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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

tuberculosis

Body Site

back

Age

12 months

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

Color

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

Comments

A toddler developed a high fever cough and rash. A chest X-ray showed a right middle lobe infiltrate, and a PPD was positive with 20 mm of induration. The diffuse asymptomatic papular eruption is typical of a tuberculid.

Description

diffuse discrete 2 mm papules

Categories

papulosquamous eruptions infections and infestations

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2/1/2001 23:42:56

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