[Interpretation of the Mitsuda and Kveim tests in the differential diagnosis of tuberculoid hanseniasis and cutaneous sarcoidosis].

Abstract

Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described. In countries where leprosy occurs as an endemic disease the differential diagnosis between sarcoidosis and tuberculoid leprosy may be difficult to establish. In order to entrance the correct diagnosis this study presents a table in which the results of lepromin and Kveim tests are analyzed are correlated to the other.