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Papular Tuberculids Post‐BCG Vaccination

1987; Wiley; Volume: 26; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1365-4362.1987.tb00191.x

1365-4632

Américo Figueiredo, A Poiares‐Baptista, Mário Branco, H. Cscarmona da Mota,

Histiocytic Disorders and Treatments

A 3-month-old child with a grossly symmetrical monomorphic papular acral-located skin eruption, a voluminous lymphadenopathy post-BCG vaccination, and hepatomegaly was seen. The diagnoses of Gianotti-Crosti's syndrome and generalized tuberculous infection have been discarded. The appearance of these lesions 48 hours after a tuberculin patch test, their tuberculoid structure, and the absence of any systemic involvement favored the diagnosis of papular tuberculids, a rarely reported complication of BCG vaccination.