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Miliary Tuberculosis Presenting with skin lesions.

1975; BMJ; Volume: 3; Issue: 5979 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.3.5979.356

0959-8138

Cameron Kennedy, G. Knowles,

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

polymyositis may have converted an otherwise trivial infection into the dramatic and alarming episode we witnessed.Secondly, periorbital swelling due to dermatomyositis may have been the predisposing factor, but no other stigmata of this condition and no cause for it could be found.The myositis was not due to the steroid treatment as it varied inversely with steroid dose, and its persistence shows that it was not a "toxic" effect of the acute illness.