[Tuberculosis luposa of the face and gluteal-femoral region in a 79 year old patient].

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Oddziału Chorób Wewnetrznych i Oddziału Dermatologii Szpitala Rejonowego w Zabrzu.

Published: May 2000

A case of a 79 year old woman with tuberculosis luposa in whom the first cutaneous changes occurred at her young age and it was properly diagnosed only after 50 years.

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