Tuberculosis Skin Lupus

** Tuberculosis of the skin lupoza** (tuberculosis cutis lupoza) is an inflammatory skin disease caused by the causative agent of tuberculosis Koch's bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex) and characterized by a chronic course, the appearance of basophytic nodes in the dermis, nodular or spotty pigmentation of the skin, papular syphilide-like or scrofulous elements, as well as ulceration of the skin due to the destruction of skin appendages by the sebaceous glands when they are involved in the process. Mostly adults, more often men, are affected; the peak incidence occurs at the age of 40-60 years. The disease can affect the skin of any localization, but the skin of the face and distal parts of the extremities are most often observed. It is divided into two forms of tuberculous skin lesions: solitary and widespread, the latter leading to generalization of the process.

The luposalic variant of lepromatous leproma occurs in the form of a primary chronic, periodically recurrent and continuously ongoing form of the disease. Among the skin manifestations, a distinction is made between erythema-bullous dermatoses and tubercolopupus. The course of the pathological process is usually long (up to 9-13 years) both with and without a period of rash.