@article{Paul_Bhat_Dandekar_Fernandes_D’Souza_2022, title={Lupus vulgaris in an 11-year-old girl.}, volume={32}, url={https://ejpd.com/index.php/journal/article/view/2373}, DOI={10.26326/2281-9649.32.4.2373}, abstractNote={<p class="p1">Tuberculosis cutis luposa, commonly known as lupus vulgaris (LV), is a rare disease. It is a paucibacillary variant of tuberculosis that progresses slowly. In India, cutaneous tuberculosis accounts for 1.5% of all cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (<span class="s1">6</span>). LV can be exogenous in origin through direct inoculation or endogenous through hematogenous or lymphatic dissemination from an underlying infectious focus, and occurs in a sensitized host with moderate to high immunity to <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (<span class="s1">6</span>). In exogenously transmitted cases, such as the present one, the tests are usually negative. Histopathology is often the only confirmatory method […].</p>}, number={4}, journal={European Journal of Pediatric Dermatology}, author={Paul, N.A. and Bhat, M.R. and Dandekar, S. and Fernandes, M. and D’Souza, M.}, year={2022}, month={Nov.}, pages={236-8} }