A form of tuberculosis of the skin, forming ulcers, and secondary to tuberculous infection of an underlying lymph gland or structure.
Tuberculosis of the skin in which the skin breaks down over suppurating tuberculous glands, with the formation of irregular-shaped ulcers with blue-tinged edges. Treatment is with antituberculous drugs, to which scrofuloderma responds better than ‘lupus vulgaris, another type of skin tuberculosis.
Miliary tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis where the infection extends from internal sources, often originating in the lymph nodes of the neck, to the skin. This leads to the formation of painless lumps beneath the skin, which can evolve into abscesses or ulcers.
A skin condition caused by tuberculosis.