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| Lupus vulgaris Classification and external resources |
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| ICD-10 | A18.4 (ILDS A18.420) |
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| ICD-9 | 017.0 |
| eMedicine | derm/434 |
| MeSH | D008177 |
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Lupus vulgaris are painful cutaneous tuberculosis skin lesions with nodular appearance, most often on the face around nose, eye lids, lips, cheeks and ears. The lesions may ultimately develop into disfiguring skin ulcers if left untreated. In the 19th century, the chronic and progressive nature of this disease was particularly marked: it remained active for ten years, twenty years, or even longer and, proved resistant to all treatment until the breakthrough by Niels Ryberg Finsen.
The term "lupus" to describe an ulcerative skin disease dates to the late thirteenth century, though it was not until the mid-nineteenth that two specific skin diseases were classified as Lupus erythematosus and Lupus vulgaris. The term "lupus" may derive from the rapacity and virulence of the disease; a 1590 work described it as "a malignant ulcer quickly consuming the neather parts; ... very hungry like unto a woolfe".[1]
References
- ^ "Lupus", Oxford English Dictionary, online second edition. Accessed 2006
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