The current state of cutaneous tuberculosis
Hentschel, U.; Jung, H.D.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 33(19): 726-731
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 735241 Document Number: 131397
Thirty-three years after the introduction of the chemotherapeutics and as result of massive prophylactic and preventive measures the tuberculosis of the skin shows a clear epidemiologic and clinical change. Nowadays the clinical picture of the tuberculosis of the skin restricts essentially to the classical forms of the lupous, verrucous and colliquative tubervulosis of the skin, the specific etiology and pathogenesis of which are ascertained. The so-called tuberculids should at present only be treated in a qualified sense in the chapter of tuberculosis of the skin. After a short description of the diagnostic possibilities and after a historical survey on former measures of treatment the present GDR standard in therapy is explained. The qualification for carrying on the isonicotinic acid hydrazide monotherapy in the tuberculosis cutis luposa and verrucosa is proved on the basis of bacteriological, pathologo-anatomical and clinical peculiarities of these forms of tuberculosis of the skin.