Post-traumatic tuberculosis verrucosa cutis:A case report
LI Jiayi
ZHENG Xiufen
TANG Hongfeng
Abstract：We report a case of post-traumatic tuberculosis verrucosa cutis.A 38-year-old man presented with a 20-year history of an annular plaque on the left buttock following a local trauma.Dermatological examination revealed an annular,infiltrated,dark red plaque with a raised border and central atrophic scar on the left buttock.Histopathological examination showed fibroplasia in the dermis and inflammatory granulomas with multinucleated giant cells.Acid-fast staining was negative.T-Spot test was positive.Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA PCR was negative.Diagnosis:tuberculosis verrucosa cutis.Following 6-month anti-tuberculosis therapy,the lesion healed with re-sidual scar and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.No recurrence was observed over 2 years of follow-up.
Keywords：tuberculosis verrucosa cutistuberculosisskintreatment
Publication Date：2025-09-28
Online Publishing Date：2025-10-29(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 669-672 )