Papulonecrotic Tuberculids of Glans Penis

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Papulonecrotic tuberculids of glans penis alone, or associated with other lesions elsewhere on the skin, have been so far reported only in a few instances.1-15 To our knowledge, no such case has been reported from America. When the lesions are limited only to glans penis, the diagnosis can be sometimes difficult, and other conditions occurring on the glans penis, such as atypical soft chancre, syphilis, recurrent herpes simplex, or cancer should be considered in differential diagnosis. Histological findings in these cases are not always conclusive, giving sometimes a rather unspecific (Reference 7, Cases 1 and 2; Reference 10, Case 1) or tuberculoid (Reference 11, Case 2; Reference 10) picture. Prolonged course, sometimes of many years,7,8,10,11,14 spontaneous healing and recurrence, presence of the focus in the organism, and histological investigations, can be of help in differential diagnosis. After the first six cases, which originated from Japan,

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