%A Kaur S
%A Dhar S
%A Bambery P
%A Kanwar AJ
%A Khajuria A


%T Cutaneous sarcoidosis masquerading as relapsed borderline tuberculoid leprosy? 

%0 Journal Article

%D 1993

%J International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

%P 0148-916X

%V 61

%N 3

%X A patient with cutaneous sarcoidosis is presented. The patient was diagnosed initially as borderline tuberculoid leprosy downgrading to borderline lepromatous leprosy and received a full 2 years of World Health Organization multibacillary drug treatment (MDT). Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy on chest X-ray and cutaneous ancrgy manifested by negative Mantoux, candidin and trichophytin skin tests sug	gested the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Histopathology confirmed this diagnosis. The subcutaneous nodule seen in this patient is a rare type of cutaneous sarcoidosis.