Original Research
Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2015)
Recalcitrant Pyoderma Gangrenosum- Like Atypical Mycobacterial Infection Successfully Treated with Combination of First and Second Line Anti Tubercular Drugs
Sunil Kumar Gupta 1*, Uraiya Dharmendra2 and Bajpai Malay3
Corresponding Author: Sunil Kumar Gupta
Received: Oct 13, 2015
Accepted: Nov 06, 2015
Published: Nov 09, 2015
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DOI: 10.14437
Abstract
A 65-year-old male presented in the outpatient department with multiple painful ulcers and pustules on the whole trunk. The total duration of disease was 14-months. He was provisionally diagnosed as a case of pyoderma gangrenosum. He was initially treated with oral steroid but the condition worsens. The biopsy of the lesion was done which showed caseating granuloma. He was treated as a case of cutaneous scrofuloderma but no response was seen in two months. Then culture for mycobacterium was send and result was positive for atypical mycobacteria. The treatment direction was shifted towards the management of atypical mycobacterial infection with the addition of two second line drugs in first line antitubercular drugs and then he cured completely in 9-months.
Sunil Kumar Gupta (2015), Recalcitrant Pyoderma Gangrenosum- Like Atypical Mycobacterial Infection Successfully Treated with Combination of First and Second Line Anti Tubercular Drugs. Aperito J Dermatol 2:110
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