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Deborah S. Asnis, Alfred R. Bresciani, Cutaneous Tuberculosis: A Rare Presentation of Malignancy, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 15, Issue 1, July 1992, Pages 158–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/clinids/15.1.158
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Abstract
An 88-year-old woman presented with fever, a neck ulcer, and multiple subcutaneous nodules on her upper extremities and thorax. Her condition was initially diagnosed as malignancy associated with metastatic disease to the skin. A subcutaneous nodule was aspirated. A gram stain of the aspirate revealed weakly gram-positive bacilli, and a stain for acid-fast bacilli was positive. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from a culture of a specimen of the skin lesion.
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