[Pulmonary tuberculosis revealed by lupus vulgaris]

The incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis in Hungary had been significantly decreased until the 1980s and its common cutaneous manifestation was found to be extremely rare. During the past years an increasing number of reports were dealing the novel increasing incidence of tuberculosis, mostly on homeless and immunocompromized persons. The present report dealt with a pulmonary tuberculotic patient on whom severe cutaneous TBC manifestations (lupus vulgaris) that was heralded the underlying systemic tuberculotic disease.